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Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Los Alamos Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349127310
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Scientists and the Manhattan Project written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Franklin D.Roosevelt and Winston Churchill pooled their nations' resources in the race to beat the Germans to the secret of the atomic bomb. This book tells the story of the British scientists who journeyed to Los Alamos to help develop the world's first nuclear weapons.
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Welcome to Los Alamos written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Ann Shroyer
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Secret Mesa written by Jo Ann Shroyer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the past, present, and future of the Los Alamos research center, which was created to assemble the world's first atomic weapon.
Author : United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195107926
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Human Radiation Experiments written by United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.S. government in which human subjects were exposed to radiation, often without their knowledge or consent. Based on a review of hundreds of thousands of heretofore unavailable or classified documents, this Report tells a gripping story of the intricate relationship between science and the state.Under the thick veil of government secrecy, researchers conducted experiments that ranged from the mundane to such egregious violations as administering radioactive tracers to mentally retarded teenagers, injecting plutonium into hospital patients, and intentionally releasing radiation into the environment. This volume concludes with a discussion of the Committee's key findings and guidelines for changes in institutional review boards, ethics rules and policies, and balancing national security interests with individual rights. Ethicists, public health professionals and those interested in the history of medicine and Cold War history will be intrigued by the findings of this landmark report.
Author : Jon Hunner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806148063
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inventing Los Alamos written by Jon Hunner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541176
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Assembly written by Lillian Hoddeson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.
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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stanislaw Ulam 1909-1984 written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Badash
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400990227
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945 written by Lawrence Badash and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the World War II efforts to develop nuclear weapons have inspired a very large literature, it struck us as noteworthy that virtually nothing existed in the form of firsthand accounts. Now It Can Be Told, by General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's military commander, is probably the most prominent exception, but the scientists themselves seem to have shown little interest in publishing their reminiscences. Believing that it would be not only worthwhile for posterity, but ex tremely interesting for the present generation to hear about the aspirations, fears, and activities of those who participated in this watershed of science and government collaboration, we arranged the public lecture series repre sented by this book.! We chose to focus upon Los Alamos since the project's efforts culminated there. The isolated laboratory in New Mexico was created to design and construct the first atomic bombs. More scientific brainpower was accumulated there than at any time since Isaac Newton dined alone, and the interactions with this community are of sociological interest, as the results of their work are of political import.
Author : TaraShea Nesbit
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408845989
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wives of Los Alamos written by TaraShea Nesbit and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
