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Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community  Cover Image Book Book

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

Hunner, Jon. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0806136340 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Family > New Mexico > Los Alamos > History > 20th century.
Community life > New Mexico > Los Alamos > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > Social aspects > New Mexico > Los Alamos > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > New Mexico > Los Alamos.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Kirtland Community College Library F 804 .L6 H86 2004 30534068 General Collection Available -

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