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Author Hunner, Jon.

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

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F804.L6 H86 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 288 pages : : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
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.
Subject Los Alamos (N.M.) -- History -- 20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Families -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century.
Families.
New Mexico -- Los Alamos.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Community life -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century.
Community life.
Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects.
Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Social aspects.
New Mexico.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 0806136340 alkaline paper
9780806136349 alkaline paper