Author: Craig Martin
Publisher: Alamos Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Quads, Shoeboxes, and Sunken Living Rooms
Author: Craig Martin
Publisher: Alamos Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Alamos Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Larger Than Life
Author: Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826338839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826338839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.
The Manhattan Project
Author: Cynthia C. Kelly
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0762471263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was one of the most significant and clandestine scientific undertakings of the 20th century. It forever changed the nature of war and cast a shadow over civilization. Born out of a small research program that began in 1939, the Manhattan Project would eventually employ nearly 600,000 people and cost about $2 billon ($28.5 billion in 2020) -- all while operating under a shroud of complete secrecy. On the 75th anniversary of this profoundly crucial moment in history, this newest edition of The Manhattan Project is updated with writings and reflections from the past decade and a half. This groundbreaking collection of essays, articles, documents, and excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters, and oral histories remains the most comprehensive collection of primary source material of the atomic bomb.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0762471263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was one of the most significant and clandestine scientific undertakings of the 20th century. It forever changed the nature of war and cast a shadow over civilization. Born out of a small research program that began in 1939, the Manhattan Project would eventually employ nearly 600,000 people and cost about $2 billon ($28.5 billion in 2020) -- all while operating under a shroud of complete secrecy. On the 75th anniversary of this profoundly crucial moment in history, this newest edition of The Manhattan Project is updated with writings and reflections from the past decade and a half. This groundbreaking collection of essays, articles, documents, and excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters, and oral histories remains the most comprehensive collection of primary source material of the atomic bomb.
109 East Palace
Author: Jennet Conant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416585427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416585427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
Los Alamos
Author: Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738529738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738529738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.
Land of Nuclear Enchantment
Author: Lucie Genay
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico’s nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people. Genay focuses on personal experiences in order to give a sense of the upheaval that accompanied the rise of the nuclear era. She gives voice to the Hispanics and Native Americans of the Jémez Plateau, the blue-collar workers of Los Alamos, the miners and residents of the Grants Uranium Belt, and the ranchers and farmers who were affected by the federal appropriation of land in White Sands Missile Range and whose lives were upended by the Trinity test and the US government’s reluctance to address the “collateral damage” of the work at the Range. Genay reveals the far-reaching implications for the residents as New Mexico acquired a new identity from its embrace of nuclear science.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico’s nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people. Genay focuses on personal experiences in order to give a sense of the upheaval that accompanied the rise of the nuclear era. She gives voice to the Hispanics and Native Americans of the Jémez Plateau, the blue-collar workers of Los Alamos, the miners and residents of the Grants Uranium Belt, and the ranchers and farmers who were affected by the federal appropriation of land in White Sands Missile Range and whose lives were upended by the Trinity test and the US government’s reluctance to address the “collateral damage” of the work at the Range. Genay reveals the far-reaching implications for the residents as New Mexico acquired a new identity from its embrace of nuclear science.
Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
New Mexico Historical Review
Author: Lansing Bartlett Bloom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
New Mexico Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
America, History and Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.