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Inventing Los Alamos - The Growth of an Atomic Community (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Inventing Los Alamos - The Growth of an Atomic Community (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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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.
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