The Wives 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 The Wives of Los Alamos write by TaraShea Nesbit. This book was released on 2014-04-24. The Wives of Los Alamos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.
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.
The View from Los Alamos
The View from 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 The View from Los Alamos write by Siegfried S. Hecker. This book was released on 1990. The View from Los Alamos 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
Tales of Los Alamos
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.
