Quads, Shoeboxes and Sunken Living Rooms
Subtitle: A History of Los Alamos Housing (The Los Alamos Story, Monograph 4)
Publisher: Los Alamos Historical Society
Published: October 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780941232241
Subjects: New Mexico; Buildings, structures, etc; Architecture; Architecture, Domestic; 20th century; Los Alamos; Los Alamos (N.M.)
First sentence: In the late 1930s, mounting evidence convinced physicists in the United States and Europe of the possibility of developing a new kind of weapon that would release energy from the nucleus of an atom and produce a bomb of incredible power.