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University of New Mexico Press, Published 1985. Hardcover, 233 pp.; 23 cm; second printing; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and diagrams.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with pink metallic lettering on spine; mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket shows light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Traces the events leading up to the first nuclear test at the Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the scientists, soldiers, and industrial effort behind it, and the political and physical aftermath of the bomb. Szasz, a University of New Mexico historian, draws on recently declassified Manhattan Project material; illustrated with archival photographs from Los Alamos. Contents: The Origins of Los Alamos; The Construction and Naming of Trinity; Theoretical Considerations; The Question of Weather; The Blast; The Aftermath I: Fallout; The Aftermath II: Cattle, Film, and People; The International Legacy; The Local Legacy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.