Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community / Jon Hunner.
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TextPublication details: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.Description: x, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: - 0806136340 (alk. paper)
- Families -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century
- Community life -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century
- Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History -- 20th century
- Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 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
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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.
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