Secret Mesa
Title | Secret Mesa PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Ann Shroyer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
Examines the past, present, and future of the Los Alamos research center, which was created to assemble the world's first atomic weapon.
Welcome to Los Alamos
Title | Welcome to Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 1978 |
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Publications of LASL Research
Title | Publications of LASL Research PDF eBook |
Author | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Research |
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Los Alamos Science
Title | Los Alamos Science PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Laboratories |
ISBN |
Inventing Los Alamos
Title | Inventing Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Hunner |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2014-08-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806148063 |
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.
Los Alamos
Title | Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Los Alamos (N.M.) |
ISBN |
Critical Assembly
Title | Critical Assembly PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Hoddeson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 532 |
Release | 2004-02-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521541176 |
This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.