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

New York: Consultants Bureau, Inc., 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [2], 195, [1] pages. Text is in Russian and English. Cover worn and soiled with corner of back cover torn off. Ex-library with usual library markings. This glossary incorporates all terms of the Russian - English Dictionary of Nuclear Physics and Engineering by N. N. Ershov, Y. V. Semenov, and A. I. Cherny (Ed. -- D. I. Voskoboinik, D. Sc.) published by the Institute of Scientific Information of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. More than 2,000 additional terms have been added. This first glossary is a compilation of Russian terms and expressions used in nuclear physics, atomic energy, and related fields. It includes expressions fond in several thousand pages of the most recent issues of Soviet journals, especially the JOURNAL of EXPERIMENTAL and THEORETICAL PHYSICS, the Physics Section of the PROCEEDINGS (DOKLADY)OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, the JOURNAL OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS and the JOURNAL OF ATOMIC ENERGY. With the vocabulary thus obtained we have combined existing bilingual dictionaries published in the USSR but not generally available in the United States. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR made such dictionaries available to this project. The Editor was associated with a number of Russian-English technical dictionaries published by the Consultants Bureau and later by Wiley. More

Risley, Warrington, Lancastershire, England, United Kingdom: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, The Reactor Group, HQ, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus [This copy appears to have been reproduced by the USAEC Division of Technical Information Services, Oak Ridge, Tennessee]. Wraps. Format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Notation and black mark on front cover. [4], 54 pages, plus covers. Figures. Formulae. Tables. References. Ex-library, Los Alamos Scientific Libraries stamp on rear cover. This report is a compilation of the best available data on the physical properties of some of the plutonium compounds which are, or may be, of interest as fuel materials. These are the dioxide, monocarbide, mononitride, monosplhide and monophosphide of plutonium, uranium-plotonium dioxide, uranium-plutonium monocarbide, uranium-plutonium mononitride, and the plutonium silicides. More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1964. First Edition, First Printing thus, This Report supersedes LANL-2674, Parts I and II., Stated as 31st Edition. Wraps. x, 245, [1] pages. Printed on both sides. Figures. Tables. Formulae. Bibliography. Stapled on left side. Number on front cover. Name and organizational code in ink on front cover. Title on spine. This report is a revision of LAMS-2674, Parts I and II, to which a discussion of the nitrides and carbides of U, Th, and Pu has been added. State of the art as of mid-1960s. In general the literature covered extends from about 1930, depending on the system and the quality of the work, to March 1964. Although an effort has been made to present as complete a description of each system as possible, only that work which, in the author's opinion, would led to a clearer understanding has been discussed in any detail. Most early work and some recent measurements have been largely ignored except to show the effect of oxygen content or to give an approximate measured value when no other exists. Many of the references cited, as well as several books, contain complete bibliographies of the early literature and may be consulted when necessary. The carbides and nitrides discussed in this report suffer from two properties that have led to a considerable accumulation of questionable data. First, they are commonly single phase over a wide range of composition, and, second, they will form a solid solution with each other and with their respective oxide. Both of these factors will affect the properties of these materials, sometimes in a very striking manner. Without the use of care in preparing the compounds and the application of proper analytical techniques, an investigation may offer little meaningful information. More

Santa Monica, CA and Los Angeles, CA: Geo Science Analytical, Inc. and University of California at Los Angeles, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Various paginations (approximately 1.5 inches thick). Footnotes. Figures. Tables. References. Ex-Los Alamos National Laboratory library with usual library markings. This collection of W. F. Libby's papers contains those on Solar System Physics and Chemistry, and Papers for the Public. Among the topics addressed include: Jupiter's Radio Emission, Free Radicals, Ice Caps on Venus, Jupiter Decametric Radiation, Solar Wind, Vegetative Life on Venus, Meteorite Carbon, Planetary Atmospheres, Radioactive Fallout, Astronauts, and Radioisotopes. More