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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.
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- Title Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
- Author Jon Hunner
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Printing..
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, U.S.A.
- Date November 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780806136349 / 0806136340
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.82 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.78 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004046086
- Dewey Decimal Code 978.958
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 1st Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; the plastic lamination on the jacket has slight heat damge. Very Good. 288 pp. Index, bibliography, notes. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Explores the momentous events that created the town, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact this small community had on the creation and development of the Atomic Age.
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First edition hardcover, with dust jacket, published by University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. History of Los Alamos, the town created in 1943 to house those who worked on the atomic bomb program. 288 pages with Index, Notes and Bibliography, 5-1/2" X 9". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Hardcover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or worn. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Nicely printed as is usual with Oklahoma Press! Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, [2], 288, [4] pages. List of Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Contents include Introduction; 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; and Atomic City on a Hill: Legacy and Continuing Research. A narrative history focuses on how the inhabitants of Los Alamos, New Mexico, confronted both the rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent Cold War era, in a study of a community's first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory. It explores the momentous events that created the town, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact this small community…
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