Los Alamos Museum and Bookstore

Quads, Shoeboxes, and Sunken Living Rooms, a History of Los Alamos Housing (Monograph #4 in the series: The Los Alamos Story), Craig Martin. 6 x 9, 148 pages.  Photographs, charts, maps. $12.95. ISBN 0-941232-24-7.   "The Los Alamos Story continues with this fourth monograph, a fascinating look at how the Atomic Energy Commission built the town, housing project by housing project.  An often humorous account of the growing pains and the unique architecture of a government-built community."

Robert Oppenheimer (Monograph #2 in the series: The Los Alamos Story), Robert Bacher, Judy Gursky ed. 6 x 9, Paper, Historic pictures, 55 Pages.  $10.00.  ISBN 0-041232-22-0.  "Recollections from a friend and scientific colleague of the brilliant young director of the project that created the atomic bomb in Los Alamos during World War II."

Tales of Los Alamos - Bernice Brode, Barbara Storms, ed. 6 x 9; Paper; 32 historical photographs; 159 pages; $12.95.  ISBN 0-941232-17-4;  "A light-hearted firsthand account of day-to-day life in the strange and secret community during World War II.  A true glimpse of the humor, sadness, and Army thinking that was Los Alamos."

Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945 - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Staff; Illus; 64 pages; 8.5 x 11; Paper; $5.95; Reprint 1999, Paper, $6.00.  ISBN 0-941232-07-7; "Story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the development of the first atomic bomb."

Standing By and Making Do, Women of Wartime Los Alamos - Jane S. Wilson and Charlotte Serber, eds. Illus; 140 Pages; 6 x 9; 1988, 1997; $9.95.  ISBN 0-941232-08-5; "Nine women residents described in 1946 their lives in Los Alamos while the atomic bomb was being developed.  The shock of arrival, housing conditions, security and secrecy, medical care, relations with Pueblo neighbors, and more...told with insight and humor."

Manhattan District History: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y 1942 through 1946  - Edith C. Truslow.  Illus; 112 Pages; 8.5 x 11; Fifth reprint 1996; Paper; $12.95.  ISBN 0-941232-11-5.  "Lively 1946 documentation of construction of laboratory buildings, living quarters, utilities and other facilities for the people making the first atomic bomb.  Includes facts, figures and memos about every aspect of civilian and military life from mess hall prices to schools, medical services, and recreation.  Numerous historical photos.

Remembering Los Alamos: World War II - Los Alamos Historical Society; VIDEO; 60 minutes; Color; VHS; 1993; $21.95.  ISBN 0-941232-13-1;  "Recent interviews with people who experienced wartime Los Alamos, descendents of area homesteaders, nearby residents, and those from far away who came to Los Alamos to make the atomic bomb.  Also includes old motion picture film and still photographs."

Front Page from Santa Fe New Mexican, app. 13 x 18; $3.00 - "Copy of page 1 on August 6, 1945.  Headline reads, 'Los Alamos Secret Disclosed by Truman'"

A Boy on the Hill, Raymond Bences Gonzales.  $8.95 (members $8.05)  Softcover, illustrated by Petr Jandacek.  43 pages, 9 x 6 in. - A new book for children about growing up during the times of the Los Alamos Ranch School by Ray Gonzales, whose father, Bences, was an important support for this remarkable school.  This is a reminiscence of a happy childhood in the 1930s from the point of view of the son of the head of the Trading Post and the camp’s cook (everyone remembers the campfire sopaipillas Bences made for camp-outs!).  This book is filled with nostalgic childhood fun, adventures, and mischief.   

A Guide to the Nuclear Arms Control Treaties, David B. Thomson.  $25 (members $22.50)   Softcover.  332 pages, 6 x 9 in. - David Thomson does an excellent job of outlining the history, content, and effectiveness of existing nuclear arms control treaties as well as proposals for the future.  He then fits the information into the total picture of world security, addressing his belief that all nuclear weapons must be included in the formal treaty process, with strict verification and controls, if we are to increase the chances of reducing threats from terrorists, rogue states, and potential militants.  Thomson’s book has been referred to as the best and most comprehensive source for understanding nuclear arms control.  

Plutonium Metallurgy at Los Alamos, 1943-1945, Recollections of Edward F. Hammel.  $20 (members $18.00)  Softcover, with charts and recently declassified documents.  185 pages, 7 x 9 in. - This is a long-overdue report on the plutonium metallurgy of the wartime work at Los Alamos.  Originally, it was to be a chapter in Volume X (Metallurgy) of the Los Alamos Technical Series, a section of the history of the Manhattan Project, but the incomplete rough draft of the chapter was misplaced and never published.  After the war, Eric Jette was assigned to write this chapter for the technical series, but he turned the job over to his associate division leader, Frank Walters.  Walters died before completing the final draft, and Jette resigned about the same time, leaving the work unfinished and the series incomplete until a misfiled collection of papers came to the attention of Edward Hammel in 1994.  Relying on his own recollections as well as Walters’ work, Hammel has at last completed the Los Alamos Technical Series that was begun in the post war days.  

Twilight Time, A Soldier’s Role in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, Ralph C. Sparks.  $15.95 (members $14.35)   Softcover, black and white as well as two pages of color photographs.  116 pages, 6 x 9 in. - An account of the role played by young draftees in WWII as they served in the Army’s Special Engineer Detachment (SED) in Los Alamos.  After months spent manufacturing mysterious parts, often inventing tools with which to make them, the author gradually came to realize he was involved in the development of the first atomic bomb.  If you or a relative were part of the Manhattan Project, this is essential reading.  

Savoring the Past: Recipes from Three Cultures, edited by Hedy Dunn and Virginia Ebinger.  $15.95 (members $14.35)  Softcover, spiral bound, with historic photographs.  167 pages, 6 x 9 in. - Take a culinary journey through history!  Savor the history of one special place in northern New Mexico—the Pajarito Plateau.  You might serve Dorothy McKibbin’s Baked Cucumbers.  Dorothy was the official greeter for the Manhattan Project at 109 Palace Avenue in Santa Fe.  The main dish might be Crab, Corn, and Asparagus Soup Casserole from Barbara Steege, wife of a Los Alamos Ranch School Master.  You can finish off your meal with the Governor’s Bread Pudding from Santa Clara Pueblo.  Or, despite the fact that Edith Warner’s tearoom at Otowi Bridge has been closed for quite a few years, but you can still have a slice of her chocolate cake!  If you’re a history buff AND a gourmet, you’ll get double pleasure from this little book!  

Secrets! of a Los Alamos Kid, 1946-1953, Kristin Embry Litchman.  $12.95 (members $11.65)  Signed.  Softcover, historic photographs.  111 pages, 6 x 9 in. - Imagine the life of a little girl, oldest of six children, in a Los Alamos very different from what exists today.  Yes, in many respects there were the usual secrets kept or divulged by lively imaginative minds, but there were also much bigger secrets to be kept in a city that existed behind a fence in shadowy legend.  Litchman writes this charming, funny, and fascinating memoir for young audiences, but everyone who has ever been a child will be charmed by the book’s nostalgic look at childhood remembered in Los Alamos.
 
 

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