Inventing Los Alamos
Subtitle: The Growth of an Atomic Community
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780806136349
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; United States - State & Local - General; Social History; Los Alamos (N.M.); United States - State & Local - Southwest; History; Social conditions; History - U.S; Military; USA; United States - 20th Century; Family; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Military - Nuclear Warfare; 20th century; Community life; Los Alamos; New Mexico
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.
Description: "Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them. Using government records and the personal accounts of early residents, Inventing Los Alamos traces the evolution of the town during its first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory and documents the momentous events that created the town, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact of this small community on the Atomic Age."--Jacket.