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.
Download or read book Los Alamos Development Code written by Los Alamos County. Community Development Department and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disposal of the Los Alamos Community written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Communities and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers AEC proposal to sell government-owned homes and business properties in Los Alamos, N.Mex., to private owners.
Download or read book Los Alamos County Development Code written by Los Alamos County. Community Development Department and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disposal of the Los Alamos Community written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Alamos Community Presentation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disposal of the Los Alamos Community Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communities of 87 2 April 23 1962 written by United States. Congress. Atomic Energy Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Final Los Alamos Community Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technically Sweet Los Alamos written by Marjorie Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disposal of the Los Alamos Community written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Disposal of Government Owned Community at Los Alamos N Mex written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disposal of Government-Owned Communities and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Beyond the Fences written by Konami L. Compton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Problems at Los Alamos written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Alamos Community Transfer written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
