Rider of the Pale Horse: A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond

by McAllister H. Hull

Book Overview

A scientist's recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull's involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry department of an ordnance plant, Hull was drafted in 1943, after his freshman year in college. Unlike other accounts written by scientists and historians of that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826335535
• ISBN13: 9780826335531
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"