Tales of Los Alamos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Los Alamos write by Bernice Brode. This book was released on 1997. Tales of Los Alamos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A light-hearted first-hand account of everyday life in the strange and secret community between 1943 and 1945"--P. [4] of cover.
109 East Palace
109 East Palace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 109 East Palace write by Jennet Conant. This book was released on 2007-11-01. 109 East Palace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.
Inventing Los Alamos
Inventing Los Alamos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Los Alamos write by Jon Hunner. This book was released on 2014-08-04. Inventing Los Alamos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City” Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How these people, as a community, faced both the fevered rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent cold-war era is the focus of Jon Hunner’s fascinating narrative history. Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them. Using government records and the personal accounts of early residents, Inventing Los Alamos, traces the evolution of the town during its first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory and documents the town’s creation, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact of this small community on the Atomic Age.
Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945
Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 write by Bernice Brode. This book was released on 1960. Tales of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Los Alamos
Los Alamos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Los Alamos write by Joseph Kanon. This book was released on 2010-09-22. Los Alamos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted campus” of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man’s bed and making love to another man’s wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man’s-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer—as the world is about to be changed forever. Praise for Los Alamos “A magnificent work of fiction . . . a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb.”—The Boston Globe “Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness.” —The New York Times “Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job.”—The Washington Post Book World
