{"product_id":"inventing-los-alamos-jon-hunner-9780806138916","title":"Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA social history of New Mexico's \"Atomic City\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLos 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuch 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, \u003cem\u003eInventing Los Alamos\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Hunner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806138912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806138916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 71","brand":"Jon Hunner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980558795007,"sku":"9780806138916","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_893fb2bb-5cab-477e-bddf-36ded7fa785f.jpg?v=1683250590","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventing-los-alamos-jon-hunner-9780806138916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}