Nuclear New Mexico: A Historical, Natural, and Virtual Tour

by Jacqueline S. Palmer and M. Jimmie Killingsworth

The mountains, valleys, forests, and sands of 1940s New Mexico served as a picturesque backdrop to the dawn of the Atomic Age, the land's natural beauty coexisting with secretive, nuclear development. Today, nuclear tourists and nature tourists travel a shared path through the state as the history of the bomb is commemorated at official sites, often alongside monuments to natural preservation: Trinity Site, bordered by the Bosque del Apache National...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623496888
• ISBN13: 9781623496883
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 9.1"