Tales of Los Alamos
Title | Tales of Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Brode |
Publisher | Alamos Historical Society |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | 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.
109 East Palace
Title | 109 East Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Jennet Conant |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2006-05-08 |
Genre | 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.
Inventing Los Alamos
Title | Inventing Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Hunner |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-08-04 |
Genre | 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.
Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945
Title | Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Brode |
Publisher | |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Los Alamos (N.M.) |
ISBN |
Los Alamos
Title | Los Alamos PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Kanon |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 539 |
Release | 2010-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307765393 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted campus” of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man’s bed and making love to another man’s wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man’s-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer—as the world is about to be changed forever. Praise for Los Alamos “A magnificent work of fiction . . . a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb.”—The Boston Globe “Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness.” —The New York Times “Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job.”—The Washington Post Book World
Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945
Title | Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Badash |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | 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.
Inside Box 1663
Title | Inside Box 1663 PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Jette |
Publisher | Alamos Historical Society |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
As the author herself put it, this is "the lives of men and women who lived and worked in grim secrecy to hasten the end of the war." It is the story of stressful lives, cryptic conversations between husbands and wives, leaky faucets and water shortages, censored mail, and sharing a post office box with every other person in town PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM. Life was filled with difficulties, but it was also filled with determination to overcome the hardships and reach a goal. Tying it all together was a sense of pride, of patriotism, and communal spirit that surpassed anything they knew before or after those days of the Manhattan Project.