Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Historical Society, 2000. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. [4], 149, [5] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Monograph Number 4. Includes Field Guide to Los Alamos Housing. Bibliography, Index. The contents are presented chronologically after the initial requirement was stated as "Sufficient Housing for a dozen scientists'; 1942-1945: Wartime Housing--The Good, The Bad and the Ugly; 1946-1948: Post-War Difficulties--Prefabricated City vs. Permanent Housing; 1948-1952: Growing Pains--North Community and White Rock Construction Camp; 195201957: Eastern Area Revamped--Groups 16, 17 and 18; 1958-1968: Privitization--Baranca Mesa Developed and White Rock Reborn; 1965-2000: Almost Normal--Filling in the Gaps; and 2000 Housing Destroyed--The Cerro Grande Fire. The author begins with an initial group of people who gathered on the New Mexico plateau in 1942 to build the atomic bomb. From there he traces the community development patterns and domestic architecture of those who stayed after the war to form a permanent community, to the end of the century. The volume continues the Society's publication series. Craig Martin has put his own name on a series of books about the outdoors—trout fishing, mountain biking, hiking, hot springs, and wild plants—plus one about the history and lingo of neighborhoods built by the U.S. government for scientists building a bomb. (A “Group 18 Two-Bedroom” may not mean much to you, but if you’re what locals call a “labbie,” you get it.). More

Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 206 pages. Figures. References. Index. Ex-U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Library, with usual library markings. Cover worn and soiled. Spine frayed. Foreword by Willard F. Libby. Contents include: The Human Situation; Geographic Engineering; Tools of Change; A New Raw Material Economy; Underground Explosions and Safety; Experiments in Action and Blueprint; Ideas Unlimited; Engineering Potentialities; The Soviet Stake; Need for Advanced Planning; Management Options and Problems; Attitudes and Viewpoints; International Questionmarks; and Even As Canute. The author was a noted academia who had been on the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He specialized in international relations and the interaction between technology and politics. Dr. Sanders had spent a decade as a War Plans Analyst and as a Mutual Security Analyst for the Department of the Air Force. Project Plowshare was the overall United States term for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. It was the US portion of what are called Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE). More

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xxi, [1], 178 pages. Figure. Table. Westview Press release laid in. Minor edge soiling noted. Richard William Butler, AC (born 13 May 1942) is a retired Australian public servant, United Nations weapons inspector, and a former Governor of Tasmania. In 1983 he was appointed as Australia's Permanent Representative on Disarmament to the United Nations in Geneva. He was next appointed Australian Ambassador to Thailand, and played a major part in the Cambodian peace settlement, working closely with then Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. He was Australian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 to 1997. More

Cincinnati, OH: Lambers Publications, 2002. Third Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. [4], 176 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. William Lambers is an author, journalist, and historian . His writings have been published by the New York Times, History News Network, Newsweek, Chicago Sun Times, Miami Herald, Cincinnati Enquirer, Buffalo News, HuffPost, Des Moines Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, San Diego Union-Tribune, the Boston Herald, and other news outlets. His writings on nuclear weapons have been published in Spectrum, the flagship publication of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. His books include Nuclear Weapons, The Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Open Skies for Peace, From War to Peace and the Battle of Britain. He is also a writer for Blogcritics and the History News Service. Mr. Lambers is a graduate of Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio with degrees in Liberal Arts (BA) and Organizational Leadership (MS). Lambers was named a Future Five Award Winner at the Mount St. Joseph University Jubilee in 2015. More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1972. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 160 pages. Index. The contents include: Fun with Fatman; The Manufacturers; Production, Testing, Defense, Offense, Postattack, Occupational Health, Promotion, Conclusion, and Epilogue. Roger Rapoport is a journalist, author, and feature film producer/screenwriter. His articles appear in such publications as Stat News, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. He has also published in many national magazines. Roger Rapoport has written a book that bides to be a classic of the muckraker's art. This work is both a chronicle of how are nuclear war machine, in the opinion of the author, does not work and a citizen's call for unilateral withdrawal by the United States from the building and testing of nuclear weapons. An intriguing articulation of this perspective. More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 288, [4] pages. List of Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Contents include Introduction; Rendezvous at Site Y: The Instant City; Fishing in the Desert with Fat Man: Civic Tension, Atomic Explosion; Postwar Los Alamos: Exodus, New Growth, and Invisible Danger; Los Alamos Transformed: Federal Largesse and Red Challenge; A Cold War Community Up in Arms: Competition and Conformity; Toward Normalizing Los Alamos: Cracking the Gates; and Atomic City on a Hill: Legacy and Continuing Research. A narrative history focuses on how the inhabitants of Los Alamos, New Mexico, confronted both the rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent Cold War era, in a study of a community's first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory. It explores the momentous events that created the town, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact this small community had on the creation and development of the Atomic Age. Jon Hunner was a Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Dr. Hunner taught at New Mexico State University from 1995 to 2018. He specialized in 20th century U.S. history and Public History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, and is the author of Inventing Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War and the Atomic West, and other works. He previously served as director of the New Mexico History Museum. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 24 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on back cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Laser pioneering with the 'pH jump"; Looking through a chimney: study in Vermont; Archeology on the Pajarito Plateau. This issue also includes sections on Among our Guests, Short Subjects and 10 years ago. 1968 marked Congressman Manuel Lujan Jr.'s first visit to 'the Hill'. Also, The Atom won an "Award for Excellence" in the Pacific Industrial Communicators Association 1968 Evaluation and Awards Program. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 20 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on front cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Dividing fact and the fanciful: rugs, artifacts, and nondestructive testing; Glittering facts: Einsteinian magic: The 1978 Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture; Hoisting a 30-ton Crane: Constructional at Meson Physics Facility; Tests link cancer to body's natural defense system; Super-storage for West Coast power lines: helping the Bonneville Power Administration. This issue also includes the regular features of short subjects and 10 years ago. In 1968 Lt.-Gen. Harold C. Donnelly (USAF retired) assumed the duties of manager of the AEC's Albuquerque Operations Office. He had been the Commander of Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency at Sandia Base and director of the Defense Atomic Support Agency in Washington. There is a typographic error in the listing of the articles inside the front cover. What is stated as a 3-ton crane should be, per the actual article, a 30-ton crane. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 20 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on front cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Study of Sun: Toward A New Era; Painting the Sky; Snow Slows Sun Day; Graduate From UNM. This issue also includes the following regular features: Short Subjects, Photo Shorts, Guests and 10 Years Ago. In 1968 LASL announced that the most powerful nuclear rocket reactor yet developed by the laboratory had been tested at Jackass Flats, Nevada. Local scientists estimated that Phoebus 2A would produce more than 4,00 megawatts of power. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 24 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on back cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled How's the Weather?; Solar Design Workshop; A Place in History; Plateau Structures Studied; and Cosmos: Picking Up the Pieces. This issue also includes the following regular features: Short Subjects, Among Our Guests, Photo Short, and 10 Years Ago. From the 10 years ago section, in 1968 a new technical division at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory had been formed--called the Computer Science and Services Division. The purpose in establishing C-Division was to increase the long term efficiency and capability of LASL's computing facilities in support of all Laboratory programs. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 24 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on front cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Solar Energy: Abundant But Not Free; The Atom Has a New Printer; LAMPF Building New Remote Manipulators, and Prehistoric Settlements On the Pajarito Plateau. This issue also includes the following regular features: Short Subjects, Among Our Guests, Photo Short, and 10 Years Ago. The front cover shows Carl Newton adjusting the "Skylid" roof in the central greenhouse of his White Rock home. Each metal panel has a black canister, facing the sky, and a light canister, facing inside. Freon flows through tubing from the black canister, when the sun's heat forces the liquid to the inside canister, where it condenses. The shift in weight causes the Skylids, which are mounted on ball-bearing pivots, to open. At night, the black canisters radiate much of their heat outward and cool down. the Freon medium shifts again and the Skylids close, preventing a great deal of heat loss. Adobe walls and window openings transfer the sun's stored heat to other living quarters throughout the evening. the photo is by Johnnie Martinez. The new printer was the Panorama Press of Albuquerque. From the 10 years ago section, in 1968 Regular gas at the Los Alamos service station was 27.9 cents a gallon. More

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1946 [copyright date 1947]. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], 205, [1] pages. Illustrations. Chronology, Cover worn, soiled and stained. Some edge damp staining and cover color bleeding onto page edges noted. Illustrated endpaper. Name in ink inside front cover and on title page, with location and date. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. RARE in any condition. This is a rare memento of one of the 20th century's most triumphant technological efforts, documenting and profusely illustrating the activities of the MIT Rad Lab, the "birthplace of cybernetics". "Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory" is a memory-book, nothing more. It is not an official Radiation Laboratory publication, nor can the Laboratory or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology be held responsible for any statements in it. Attributions of credit, or dates of origin or development, represent only the authors' personal opinions. Most of the historical material for Part I was drawn form Dr. Henry E. Guerlac's "History of the Radiation Laboratory", manuscript which was courteously made available in advance of publication. Plans were in process for the publication of this important work by Little, Brown and Company of Dr. Guerlac's complete and authoritative story of the Radiation Laboratory. Material for Part II of this book is based on interviews with Division Heads and others. While the gook would not have been possible without the above contributions, it must be understood that any omissions, inaccuracies or faults of emphasis and interpretation are whose the responsibility of the undersigned. C. Newton, Thelma E. Peterson and Nancy Joy Perkins. More

Pittsburgh, PA: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Bettis Plant, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 117, [1] pages. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Tabular data. References. Ink marks on front cover. Staple remains in front cover. Staple holes on several early pages noted. Ex-Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory libraries. LASL stamp on back cover. The authors include M. L. Bleiberg, J. D. Eichenberg, R. H. Fillnow, and the Editor, L. J. Jones. Radiation stability is one of the major requirements in the overall program of alloy development for the Pressurized Water Reactor. Critical properties of the fuel, such as dimensional stability and corrosion resistance in high temperature water, must not deteriorate under neutron bombardment to the point that the fuel element integrity would be seriously jeopardized during core life, even in the case of clad penetration. In order to accumulate information on the effects of radiation on dimensional stability, corrosion resistance, and related factors such as density, mechanical, and structural changes, an extensive experimental program was undertaken. More