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Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community / Jon Hunner

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Author:
Hunner, Jon  Search this
Physical description:
x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New Mexico
Los Alamos
United States
Los Alamos (N.M.)
Date:
2004
C2004
20th century
Contents:
Rendezvous at Site Y : the instant city -- Fishing in the desert with Fat Man : civic tension, atomic explosion -- Postwar Los Alamos : exodus, new growth, and invisible danger -- Los Alamos transformed : federal largesse and Red challenge -- A Cold War community up in arms : competition and conformity -- Toward normalizing Los Alamos : cracking the gates -- Atomic city in a hill : legacy and continuing research
Topic:
Families--History  Search this
Community life--History  Search this
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--History  Search this
Cold War--Social aspects  Search this
History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_774840