Inventing Los Alamos
Subtitle: The Growth of an Atomic Community
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: September 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780806138916
Subjects: Social History; United States - 20th Century; United States - State & Local - Southwest; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Film & Video - General; Biography & Autobiography; History - U.S.; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Although Los Alamos's military contribution to the defeat of Japan and then to the arms race that followed has been acknowledged many times, the complete story of Los Alamos must include (and often does not) its hesitant evolution after the war into a permanent outpost on the frontlines of the Cold War.