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Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743250087
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.
Author : Jon Hunner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : 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.
Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1476767297
A New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis—changing the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others—at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis’ papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis’ obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.
Author : Ruth H. Howes
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592131921
The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists.
Author : Gregg Herken
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466851554
Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller-the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science-and its practitioners-enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War? The story of these three men, builders of the bombs, is fundamentally about loyalty-to country, to science, and to each other-and about the wrenching choices that had to be made when these allegiances came into conflict. Gregg Herken gives us the behind-the-scenes account based upon a decade of research, interviews, and newly released Freedom of Information Act and Russian documents. Brotherhood of the Bomb is a vital slice of American history told authoritatively-and grippingly-for the first time.
Author : Bernice Brode
Publisher : Alamos Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,71 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 : Nancy Cook Steeper
Publisher : Los Alamos Historical Society Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Los Alamos (N.M.)
ISBN : 9780941232302
Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.
Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1416585427
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.
Author : JENNET. CONANT
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
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Get the Summary of Jennet Conant's 109 East Palace in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "109 East Palace" by Jennet Conant chronicles the life of Dorothy McKibbin, a key figure in the Manhattan Project, and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Dorothy, a widow with a young son, takes a secretarial job in Santa Fe, unknowingly becoming part of the project led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The book details the clandestine operations at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where scientists worked to create the world's first nuclear weapons...