Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community /
Hunner, Jon.
Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community / Jon Hunner. - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004. - x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-276) and index.
Rendezvous at Site Y : the instant city -- Fishing in the desert with Fat Man : civic tension, atomic explosion -- Postwar Los Alamos : exodus, new growth, and invisible danger -- Los Alamos transformed : federal largesse and Red challenge -- A Cold War community up in arms : competition and conformity -- Toward normalizing Los Alamos : cracking the gates -- Atomic city in a hill : legacy and continuing research.
0806136340 (alk. paper)
2004046086
Families--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Community life--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects--New Mexico--Los Alamos.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--History--20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--Social conditions--20th century.
F 804.L6 / H86 2004
Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community / Jon Hunner. - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004. - x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-276) and index.
Rendezvous at Site Y : the instant city -- Fishing in the desert with Fat Man : civic tension, atomic explosion -- Postwar Los Alamos : exodus, new growth, and invisible danger -- Los Alamos transformed : federal largesse and Red challenge -- A Cold War community up in arms : competition and conformity -- Toward normalizing Los Alamos : cracking the gates -- Atomic city in a hill : legacy and continuing research.
0806136340 (alk. paper)
2004046086
Families--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Community life--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--History--New Mexico--Los Alamos--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects--New Mexico--Los Alamos.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--History--20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Los Alamos (N.M.)--Social conditions--20th century.
F 804.L6 / H86 2004