Jon Hunner: 1 book
Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of an Atomic Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
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...
