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.
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.