[PDF] Los Alamos The First Forty Years eBook

Author : Fern Lyon
Publisher : Alamos Historical Society
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,60 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 : 43,96 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 : Jo Ann Shroyer
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,23 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.

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780803239012

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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 : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743250087

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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 : Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,23 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 : John D. Wirth
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780826328830

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Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the schoolas curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection.