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• Publisher : Alamos Historical Society
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 1997

"A light-hearted first-hand account of everyday life in the strange and secret community between 1943 and 1945"--P. [4] of cover.

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 August 2014

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,”

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

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,”

• Publisher : UNM Press
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual

• Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Ground zero -- Land of cultural and economic survival -- The skeleton of a domestic nuclear empire -- The manifest destiny of atomic scientists -- The atomic sun shines over

• Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• File Size : 39,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 March 2014

This informative edition tells the story of the Manhattan Project. The book describes how the project came to fruition, the people involved, and the impact that the nuclear bomb had

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 22,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 December 2007

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER •

• Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Canaday, a poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during,

• Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2010

The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall. Why is science still considered

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 February 2004

This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.