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Katrina R. Mason has interviewed a wide range of people who spent all or parts of their childhoods in Los Alamos - from its muddy beginnings in 1943, when residents officially lived at P.O. Box 1663, to the late 1950s, after the laboratory had come under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission - to create this engaging and provocative portrait of a place that has come to epitomize both the scientific advances and the moral ambiguities of this...
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice traces the history of the world's first atomic detonation. Author Ferenc Morton Szasz, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, describes the personalities, events, and scientific processes that led to the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb in the New Mexican desert. The text covers and reconstructs the story...the industrious atmosphere of scientists and technicians; the solemn rsponsibilities of...
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"It is the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of discovery and secrecy, hope and horror,...
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