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Author : Bernice Brode
Publisher : Alamos Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Los Alamos (N. M.)
ISBN : 9780941232173
"A light-hearted first-hand account of everyday life in the strange and secret community between 1943 and 1945"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Lawrence Badash
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9400990227
Although the World War II efforts to develop nuclear weapons have inspired a very large literature, it struck us as noteworthy that virtually nothing existed in the form of firsthand accounts. Now It Can Be Told, by General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's military commander, is probably the most prominent exception, but the scientists themselves seem to have shown little interest in publishing their reminiscences. Believing that it would be not only worthwhile for posterity, but ex tremely interesting for the present generation to hear about the aspirations, fears, and activities of those who participated in this watershed of science and government collaboration, we arranged the public lecture series repre sented by this book.! We chose to focus upon Los Alamos since the project's efforts culminated there. The isolated laboratory in New Mexico was created to design and construct the first atomic bombs. More scientific brainpower was accumulated there than at any time since Isaac Newton dined alone, and the interactions with this community are of sociological interest, as the results of their work are of political import.
Author : Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521541176
This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.
Author : Bernice Brode
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Los Alamos (N.M.)
ISBN :
Author : TaraShea Nesbit
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408845989
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.
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349127310
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.
Author : Alex Wellerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 022602038X
"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Author : James W. Kunetka
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
"In a clandestine scientific laboratory on isolated Los Alamos Mesa in northern New Mexico, the world's first three atomic bombs were created. City of Fire is the dramatic account of how Los Alamos scientists raced the clock during World War II to find the answers to great unknowns and develop the bomb before the Nazis did. Drawing on previously classified wartime files, the records of the Manhattan Project, and interviews with dozens of wartime participants, James Kunetka shows the reader what it was like to live and work in Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945"--Back cover.
Author : Thomas Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108419763
"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"--
Author : Jon Hunner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806181230
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.