Alice Kimball Smith (1907–2001) was an American historian, writer, and teacher, particularly known from her writing from personal experience on the Manhattan Project.
[1] She soon got a teaching job in Los Alamos where her and her husband became friends with J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty.
[9] Smith and her husband moved to Chicago after World War II ended.
[11] Smith wrote books like A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–1947[12][13] and co edited (with Charles Weiner)[14] Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections[15] with the latter being a collection of letters from J. Robert Oppenheimer between 1922 and 1945.
[19] A Peril and a Hope was about the growing negative sentiment of scientists about creating the atomic bomb due to their concerns over the sociopolitical consequences of its usage.