Lyda Speck served in the Women’s Army Corps at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. She later remembered “how tight the security was. It was always referred to as a ‘gadget’ by all the scientists and everybody else. I never heard anyone mention that it was a bomb.”
Lyda Speck
Provisional Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProvisional Engineer Detachment
