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| Author | : Eleanor Jette |
| Publisher | : Alamos Historical Society |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
As the author herself put it, this is "the lives of men and women who lived and worked in grim secrecy to hasten the end of the war." It is the story of stressful lives, cryptic conversations between husbands and wives, leaky faucets and water shortages, censored mail, and sharing a post office box with every other person in town PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM. Life was filled with difficulties, but it was also filled with determination to overcome the hardships and reach a goal. Tying it all together was a sense of pride, of patriotism, and communal spirit that surpassed anything they knew before or after those days of the Manhattan Project.
| Author | : Nancy Cook Steeper |
| Publisher | : Los Alamos Historical Society Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Los Alamos (N.M.) |
| ISBN | : 9780941232302 |
Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.
| Author | : Deborah Leah Steinberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2016-10-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780998300603 |
This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. The result is this book-part memoir, part discussions with siblings and cousins, and part interviews with a dozen others who had a parent who worked on the Project.
| Author | : Peter Bacon Hales |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1999-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780252068317 |
Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story of the project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
| Author | : Jon Hunner |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2014-08-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0806181230 |
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.
| Author | : Julie Des Jardins |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2010-10-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1458761916 |
Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations - limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men - to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Exploring the lives of Jane Good all, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn Yalow, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson, and the women of the Manhattan Project, Julie Des Jardins considers their personal and professional stories in relation to their male counterparts - Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi - to demonstrate how the gendered culture of science molds the methods, structure, and experience of the work. With lively anecdotes and vivid detail, The Madame Curie Complex reveals how women scientists have often asked different questions, used different methods, come up with different explanations for phenomena in the natural world, and how they have forever transformed a scientist's role.
| Author | : TaraShea Nesbit |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2014-04-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1408845989 |
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.
| Author | : Jonah Winter |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2017-02-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1481469142 |
Five starred reviews! Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this “astonishing…beautifully told” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book. At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.
| Author | : A. Constandina Titus |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2016-04-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0874179629 |
On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the continued viability of that site for weapons testing. Titus has updated her now-classic study of atomic testing with fifteen years of political and cultural history, from the mid-1980s Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear standoff to the authorization of the Nevada Test Site Research Center, a Desert Research Institute facility scheduled to open in 2001. In this second edition of Bombs in the Backyard, Titus deftly covers the post-Cold War transformation of American atomic policy as well as our overarching cultural interest in all matters atomic, making this a must-read for anyone interested in atomic policy and politics.
| Author | : John F. Wukovits |
| Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 142051184X |
This informative edition tells the story of the Manhattan Project. The book describes how the project came to fruition, the people involved, and the impact that the nuclear bomb had on World War II. The book also details the lives of the people who worked on the project along with that of their families and how they had to basically cut all ties to the outside world.
