I keep reading fic that still assumes Howard was at Los Alamos or Oak Ridge and getting stopped by that, so yeah. I guess there's an argument to be made that he went to Los Alamos after Steve went down? But by that point the bomb research was mostly done - they were already picking targets - and it's not like he wasn't still keeping busy wrapping up the Commandos' work.
He could very well have done early preliminary consulting work work while the Manhattan Project was still based in Manhattan, but he'd've still been missing out on everything that came later, including most of the stuff that started thinking about the hard ethical questions.
(I find it really unlikely that he'd've been at Los Alamos before Project Rebirth - even if it wasn't contradicted by secondary canon, I don't think anybody who knew that much about the Manhattan Project would have been allowed to go to Europe, no matter how vital his skills were.)
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Date: 2014-08-21 01:38 am (UTC)He could very well have done early preliminary consulting work work while the Manhattan Project was still based in Manhattan, but he'd've still been missing out on everything that came later, including most of the stuff that started thinking about the hard ethical questions.
(I find it really unlikely that he'd've been at Los Alamos before Project Rebirth - even if it wasn't contradicted by secondary canon, I don't think anybody who knew that much about the Manhattan Project would have been allowed to go to Europe, no matter how vital his skills were.)