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Book Synopsis Inventing Los Alamos by : Jon Hunner
Download or read book Inventing Los Alamos written by Jon Hunner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City” Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How these people, as a community, faced both the fevered rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent cold-war era is the focus of Jon Hunner’s fascinating narrative history. Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them. Using government records and the personal accounts of early residents, Inventing Los Alamos, traces the evolution of the town during its first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory and documents the town’s creation, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact of this small community on the Atomic Age.
Book Synopsis The House at Otowi Bridge by : Peggy Pond Church
Download or read book The House at Otowi Bridge written by Peggy Pond Church and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1973-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil with whom she came in contact. The quality of the country, of the many kinds of people, and of the central character come through excellently." --Oliver La Farge
Download or read book 109 East Palace written by Jennet Conant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of the scientists, technicians, and families stationed at the site that planned and built the first atomic bomb, also known as the Manhattan Project.
Book Synopsis The Los Alamos, New Mexico Story by : Francis Stanley
Download or read book The Los Alamos, New Mexico Story written by Francis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in Southwest Collection.
Book Synopsis Los Alamos Revisted by : Peter Malmgren
Download or read book Los Alamos Revisted written by Peter Malmgren and published by Kelly Pasholk. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the creation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the point of view of the people who helped build it - the technicians, engineers, trades people, and many others. The book is a distillation of 150 interviews from people 25 different communities of Northern New Mexico sharing their personal experiences.
Book Synopsis The Wives of Los Alamos by : TaraShea Nesbit
Download or read book The Wives of Los Alamos written by TaraShea Nesbit and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.
Book Synopsis British Scientists and the Manhattan Project by : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Download or read book British Scientists and the Manhattan Project written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Franklin D.Roosevelt and Winston Churchill pooled their nations' resources in the race to beat the Germans to the secret of the atomic bomb. This book tells the story of the British scientists who journeyed to Los Alamos to help develop the world's first nuclear weapons.
Book Synopsis Atomic Spaces by : Peter Bacon Hales
Download or read book Atomic Spaces written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story of the project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Download or read book Los Alamos written by Joseph Kanon and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted campus” of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man’s bed and making love to another man’s wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man’s-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer—as the world is about to be changed forever. Praise for Los Alamos “A magnificent work of fiction . . . a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb.”—The Boston Globe “Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness.” —The New York Times “Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job.”—The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Nature at War written by Thomas Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--
Book Synopsis Tales of Los Alamos by : Bernice Brode
Download or read book Tales of Los Alamos written by Bernice Brode and published by Alamos Historical Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A light-hearted first-hand account of everyday life in the strange and secret community between 1943 and 1945"--P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis Children of Los Alamos by : Katrina R. Mason
Download or read book Children of Los Alamos written by Katrina R. Mason and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spoken word is an invaluable asset which strengthens human experience of the past and adds vigor to the documentation of historical accounts. This series presents major events in American history through the rich personal testimonies of those who were there. Each volume includes: -- A preface illuminating historical background and research details -- A collection of oral testimonies selected from a range of rare and hard-to-find sources -- A concluding analytical chapter -- Notes, bibliography and an index -- Illustrations
Book Synopsis Children of Usher by : Glenn Fishbine
Download or read book Children of Usher written by Glenn Fishbine and published by GOM Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of true stories of children coming to age under the routine threat of global annihilation and how they routinely coped with thinking about the unthinkable"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Place Names of New Mexico by : Robert Julyan
Download or read book The Place Names of New Mexico written by Robert Julyan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.
Book Synopsis Land of Nuclear Enchantment by : Lucie Genay
Download or read book Land of Nuclear Enchantment written by Lucie Genay and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico’s nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people. Genay focuses on personal experiences in order to give a sense of the upheaval that accompanied the rise of the nuclear era. She gives voice to the Hispanics and Native Americans of the Jémez Plateau, the blue-collar workers of Los Alamos, the miners and residents of the Grants Uranium Belt, and the ranchers and farmers who were affected by the federal appropriation of land in White Sands Missile Range and whose lives were upended by the Trinity test and the US government’s reluctance to address the “collateral damage” of the work at the Range. Genay reveals the far-reaching implications for the residents as New Mexico acquired a new identity from its embrace of nuclear science.
Download or read book Secret Mesa written by Jo Ann Shroyer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the past, present, and future of the Los Alamos research center, which was created to assemble the world's first atomic weapon.
Book Synopsis Manhattan District History by : Edith C. Truslow
Download or read book Manhattan District History written by Edith C. Truslow and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
