J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West

Informationen zum Autor Jon Hunner, Professor of History and Public History Director at New Mexico State University, is author of Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Klappentext Illustrating how an atomic scientist's life intertwines with a region's history! Hunner recounts how J. Robert Oppenheimer helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos! New Mexico! bringing talented people--and billions of dollars in federal contracts--to the region.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Hunner
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2009
• EAN: 9780806140469
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-4046-9
• Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies; Oklahoma Western Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies