Read all about it in this post from my new blog.
I try to explain why I am re-titling my ebook project about wartime Manhattan's OTHER Project as "Aktion 4F" .
It is entitled thus because that term (a) accurately describes the bulk of the project's medical staff and of their patients.
In addition, (b) it reminds us that the project was begun to rebuke the Aktion T4 type of programs set up in Germany and throughout the Allied and Neutral worlds during WWII.
And it was changed because my readers and would-be readers are (almost) always right ...
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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