[PDF] Los Alamos The First Forty Years eBook

Author : Fern Lyon
Publisher : Alamos Historical Society
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :

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Preamble: Letters establishing the work of the "special laboratory"; The War Years: 1943-1945; Postwar: 1946-1951; Open City: 1952-1962; Recent: 1963-1983.

Author : Jon Hunner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806148063

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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.

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803289666

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New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument and the atomic city of Los Alamos. On Rims and Ridges throws into stark relief what happens when native cultures and Euro-American commercial interests interact in such a remote area with limited resources. The demands of citizens and institutions have created a form of environmental gridlock more often associated with Manhattan Island than with the semiurban West, writes Hal K. Rothman.

Author : James Kunetka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621573850

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With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer—the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations—Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men—the general and the genius.

Author : Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738529738

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A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.

Author : Henry Jack Tobias
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826313904

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Ch. I (pp. 7-21) traces the Jewish presence in the state of New Mexico to the Spanish period when the region was colonized, between 1598-1680. Persecuted by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico in the 1590s and 1640s, many Portuguese Conversos fled north to New Leon and New Mexico to seek refuge. States that, until recently, many New Mexican Hispanics have been unaware that they observe Jewish traditions. Some have complained of being called "killers of Christ". The present Jewish population is composed mainly of descendants of German Jews who emigrated after 1846-48. In New Mexico there were almost no manifestations of antisemitism, apart from sporadic attacks against Jews (e.g. in 1867) in the press, which showed that personal politics or Jewish economic prominence could elicit latent antisemitism. In 1982 a controversy broke out about the use of the swastika and Nazi-like uniforms in the State University's yearbook, and in 1967 Reies Tijerina, a Christian fundamentalist, accused Jews of having stripped the Hispanics of their ancestral lands.

Author : Jo Ann Shroyer
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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Examines the past, present, and future of the Los Alamos research center, which was created to assemble the world's first atomic weapon.