Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community

by Jon Hunner

Book Overview

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," created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people--scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How these people, as a community, faced both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806138912
• ISBN13: 9780806138916
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"