Nuclear NM summer book club
Nuclear NM Summer Book Club: "Nuclear in New Mexico," exploring the impact of nuclear technology on our state.
- The 2023 end-of-summer book discussion is scheduled for Thurs 24 Aug at 6:30pm MDT via Zoom.
- Summer of 2023:
ANS Trinity Section is running a Summer Book Club again this year! Please join us in reading this unique book.
- Selection:
Trinity, a Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm.
- Summary:
This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project, and even transports the reader into a nuclear reaction—into the splitting atoms themselves.
The power of the atom was harnessed in a top-secret government compound in Los Alamos, New Mexico, by a group of brilliant scientists led by the enigmatic wunderkind J. Robert Oppenheimer. Focused from the start on the monumentally difficult task of building an atomic weapon, these men and women soon began to wrestle with the moral implications of actually succeeding. When they detonated the first bomb at a test site code-named Trinity, they recognized that they had irreversibly thrust the world into a new and terrifying age.
With powerful renderings of WWII's catastrophic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fetter-Vorm unflinchingly chronicles the far-reaching political, environmental, and psychological effects of this new invention. Informative and thought-provoking, Trinity is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant events in history
- Get the book
Available on Amazon, at the Los Alamos History Museum, and your local libraries, this is a great book for adults and teenagers alike. So get the whole family involved in this summer's book club!
- Contact the PI&O chair, Carl Willis or 505-412-3277, for more information.
Previous reading selections for the Nuclear NM Summer Book Club:
- Summer 2022: Pocketful Of Rockets: History And Stories Behind White Sands Missile Range, by Jim Eckles.
Particularly recommended: Chapters 2, 7, 18, 23, and 26.
- Summer 2021: 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, by Jennet Conant.
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