Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory - Hardcover

Shroyer, Jo Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471040630 ISBN 13: 9780471040637

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997

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Book by Shroyer Jo Ann

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Readers will be "pleased with Jo Ann Shroyer's book about the nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, which is spiced with striking anecdotes of...scientists' eccentricity and dark humor."--Science

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Created as a top-secret outpost on a desolate mesa in the New Mexico desert-exclusively for the purpose of assembling the world's first atomic weapon-Los Alamos was transformed during the Cold War into a high-powered science complex and full-blown "company town," with a population of 20,000, covering 43 square miles, including schools, stores, churches, even a private ski slope. Los Alamos is a world unto itself, rife with contradictions, haunted by its history, yet bustling with an astonishing range of forefront science projects, from cancer research to robotic ants. Shroyer has conducted extensive interviews and research, including repeated trips to the laboratory, and her thoughtful, elegant writing offers a probing exploration of the intense, complicated life behind these closed doors.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0471040630
• ISBN 13: 9780471040637
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240