New Mexico’s Pre-Oppenheimer Days
LOS ALAMOS, NM—-Well before the start of the bio pic “Oppenheimer” delineating the birth of the atom bomb, the historic mesa was the home of the Los Alamos Ranch School and little else. At 7,350 ft. altitude, the mesa was healthy enough, miles away from traffic, towns, congestion, drugs and booze, a good hour’s drive uphill from Santa Fe. In the words of Richard Colgate from the Long Island toothpaste family, one of the teenaged students boarding there, “It was…