Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806138912 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Social History of an Instant Town From a remote, very remote ranch in the mountains of New Mexico, Los Alamos became an instant city in 19A Social History of an Instant Town John Matlock From a remote, very remote ranch in the mountains of New Mexico, Los Alamos became an instant city in 1943 as it grew to six thousand people, among them the best physical scientists from around the world. With them came thousands of other workers, and their families. Los Alamos became the birthplace . 3 as it grew to six thousand people, among them the best physical scientists from around the world. With them came thousands of other workers, and their families. Los Alamos became the birthplace . perceptive cultural study I was at Los Alamos in 1988, 31 years after the period covered by the book. Yet there were still clearly common attributes of the town's culture, than spanned those intervening years. The scientific elite of the town in both 1988 and in the book's period, had an insularity. Bred in part perhaps by th. Birthplace of the Atomic Age Charles M. Nobles This is a great book for anyone remotely interested in the development of America's nuclear program and especially the city known as the birthplace of the Atomic Age. What makes the book unique is both the reader friendly narrative style of the writing and the author's focusing on the establishment o
Jon Hunner, Professor of History and Public History Director at New Mexico State University, is author of Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.
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.. An instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand peoplescientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. 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. 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
From Booklist This is a civic and sociological account of the birthplace of the atom bomb, covering the years 1942-57. The bomb's early developmental signposts as they affected both construction and local attitudes about the cold war guide Hunner's studious narrative, an ably researched supplement to general histories about the bomb. Gilbert TaylorCopyright © American Library Association. In the latter year, historian Hunner explains, security fences were removed from the residential part of Los Alamos, signifying its metamorphosis from a secret military installation where many people roughed it in tents to a normal town with a baby-boom infrastructure of new schools and comfortable, suburban-style housing. On the civ