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109 East Palace
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Author : Jennet Conant
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
109 East Palace written by Jennet Conant and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with History categories.
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.
Tuxedo Park
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Author : Jennet Conant
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2003
Tuxedo Park written by Jennet Conant and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Wall Street legend Alfred Lee Loomis, who once owned Hilton Head Island, was devoted to his hobby of science experiments in his mansion. During World War II, Loomis played a key role in the development of radar and the atomic bomb.
The Wives Of Los Alamos
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Author : TaraShea Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Wives Of Los Alamos written by TaraShea Nesbit and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Fiction categories.
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.
Inventing Los Alamos
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Author : Jon Hunner
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04
Inventing Los Alamos written by Jon Hunner and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with History categories.
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.
The Irregulars
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Author : Jennet Conant
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-09-08
The Irregulars written by Jennet Conant and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-08 with History categories.
A best-selling account describes the intelligence operations of allied forces during World War II as experienced by wounded RAF pilot Roald Dahl, a patriot who infiltrated the upper reaches of Georgetown society and worked with such figures as Churchill, Roosevelt, and spy chief William Stephenson to influence U.S. policy in favor of England. Reprint.
109 East Palace
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Author : JENNET. CONANT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
109 East Palace written by JENNET. CONANT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Los Alamos
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Author : Toni Michnovicz Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Los Alamos written by Toni Michnovicz Gibson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.
In The Matter Of J Robert Oppenheimer
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Author : Richard Polenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
In The Matter Of J Robert Oppenheimer written by Richard Polenberg and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with History categories.
At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded the Medal for Merit, the highest honor the U.S. government can bestow on a civilian. Yet, in 1953, Oppenheimer was denied security clearance amidst allegations that he was "more probably than not" an "agent of the Soviet Union." Determined to clear his name, he insisted on a hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board.In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer contains an edited and annotated transcript of the 1954 hearing, as well as the various reports resulting from it. Drawing on recently declassified FBI files, Richard Polenberg's introductory and concluding essays situate the hearing in the Cold War period, and his thoughtful analysis helps explain why the hearing was held, why it turned out as it did, and what that result meant, both for Oppenheimer and for the United States.Among the forty witnesses who testified were many who had played vitally important roles in the making of U.S. nuclear policy: Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Vannevar Bush, George F. Kennan, and Oppenheimer himself. The hearing provides valuable insights into the development of the atomic bomb and the postwar debate among scientists over the hydrogen bomb, the conflict between the foreign policy and military establishments over national defense, and the controversy over the proper standards to apply in assessing an individual's loyalty. It reveals as well the fears and anxieties that plagued America during the Cold War era.
Their Day In The Sun
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Author : Ruth H. Howes
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2003-05
Their Day In The Sun written by Ruth H. Howes and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with History categories.
The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists.
Summary Of Jennet Conant S 109 East Palace
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2024-03-25
Summary Of Jennet Conant S 109 East Palace written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-25 with History categories.
Get the Summary of Jennet Conant's 109 East Palace in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "109 East Palace" by Jennet Conant chronicles the life of Dorothy McKibbin, a key figure in the Manhattan Project, and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Dorothy, a widow with a young son, takes a secretarial job in Santa Fe, unknowingly becoming part of the project led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The book details the clandestine operations at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where scientists worked to create the world's first nuclear weapons...