Inventing Los Alamos The Growth of an Atomic Community by Jon. Hunner - November 2004

University of Oklahoma Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

University of Oklahoma Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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… Read More