num_pages: 152
description: Nine women residents described in 1946 their lives in Los Alamos while the atomic bomb was being developed. The shock of arrival, housing conditions, security and secrecy, medical care, relations with Pueblo neighbors, and more--told with insight and humor.
language: English
title: Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
titlecomplete: Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 48
publisher: Los Alamos Historical Society