New Mexico and the Atomic Age
For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on New Mexico's place in the beginning of the nuclear age and its continuing role. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.
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Behind Tall Fences: Stories and
Experiences about Los Alamos at its Beginning
(published
by the Los Alamos Historical Society, 1996)
Children of Los Alamos: An Oral History
of the Town Where the Atomic
Age Began
City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Atomic
Age, 1943-1945 (1979)
Good Servant: Making Peace with the Bomb
at Los Alamos (1995)
The House at Otowi Bridge: the Story of
Edith Warner and Los Alamos
(c. 1960,
1995)
Los Alamos: The First Forty Years (1984)
Los Alamos and the Development of the
Atomic Bomb (1995)
Los Alamos Before the Dawn
(1972)
Los Alamos. See special issue of New
Mexico Historical Review,
72:1 (January 1997)
New Mexico Magazine, 77:2 (February
1999). Special isue on space.
New Mexico's Atomic Tour (1995)
On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area
since 1880 (1992)
Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National
Laboratory (1998)
Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime
Los Alamos (1988)
Welcome to Los Alamos (1985
GPO publication)
Zia Company (Dept.
of Energy, 1993)
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of
the Trinity Site Nuclear
Explosion, July 16,
1945
American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear
War (1993)
Black Mesa: The Angel of Death (nuclear
testing in Nevada)
National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque (
http://www.atomicmuseum.com)
Nuclear Enchantment
(documentary photography, 1991)
Plutonium and the Rio Grande: Environmental
Change and Contamination
in the Nuclear Age
(1994)
Sandia National Laboratories: The Post-war
Decade (1990)
Trinity's Children: Living Along America's
Nuclear Highway (1991)
Uranium Frenzy: Boom and Bust on the Colorado
Plateau (c. 1989, 1991)
Uranium Resources in Northwestern New
Mexico (1969)
"New Mexico’s Forgotten Nuclear Tests: Projects
Gnome (1961) and
Gasbuggy (1967)," (Ferenc
M. Szasz), New Mexico Historical Review,
73:4 (October 1998).
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (http://www.nuclearactive.org)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (http://www.lanl.gov/worldview)
National Atomic Museum (http://www.atomicmuseum.com)
Nuclear Waste Citizens Coalition (http://www.igc.org/citizenalert/nwcc
Nuclear Watch New Mexico (http://www.nukewatch.org)
Sandia National Laboratories (http://www.sandia.gov)