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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
    Jon Hunner
    In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to New Mexico for his health. It was the first of many trips to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a western retreat where J. Robert Oppenheimer would eventually hold pathbreaking discussions with world-renowned scientists about atomic physics. Oppenheimer came to feel at home in the American West, and while ex...
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  • The Mesilla Valley
    Jon Hunner
    The Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico is an oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. It has attracted people for hundreds of years to its bosques of cottonwood trees, its life giving water, and its opportunities. Up and down the Mesilla Valley, from the healing waters at Radium Springs to the historic village of Mesilla, from the mountain ranges that border the east and the west to ...
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  • Inventing Los Alamos
    Jon Hunner
    A social history of New Mexico’s 'Atomic City'Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An 'instant city,' created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people-scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and...
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