out of,” Elizebeth later said. “They were all playing with machines.” This epiphany marked the dawn of a peacetime arms race that would draw the battle lines of the next world war, and the Friedmans were plunged into the heart of it as soon as they arrived in Washington in the last days of 1920, fresh from their traumas at Riverbank, with no time to relax and take a breath. Elizebeth
