Book ID: CBB000067352

Children of Los Alamos: An oral history of the town where the Atomic Age began (1995)

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Mason, Katrina R. (Author)


Twayne


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: xiv + 204 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Welsh, M. (1996) Review of "Children of Los Alamos: An oral history of the town where the Atomic Age began". Journal of American History (pp. 675-76). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ellen D. McGehee
Roger Meade
Philip Vandemeer
Smith, Jason Scott
Wilson, Jane S.
Williams, R. Hal
Journals
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Physics Today
Publishers
Los Alamos Historical Society
University of New Mexico
Arizona State University
Wiley
University of Oklahoma Press
Temple University Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Atomic bomb
Controversies and disputes
People
Richards, Hugh T.
Morgan, Karl Ziegler
Groves, Leslie R.
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Marshall Islands
United States
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
United States. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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