Rider of the pale horse : a memoir of Los Alamos and beyond
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Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2005].
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Book
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158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Main Library - Southwest Collection
530.092 Hul
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Main Library - Southwest Reference
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Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2005].
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index.
Description
"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 era, Hull's narrative offers a realistic picture of the dangerous and messy job that GIs and civilian powdermen were asked to do. Hull's description of his postwar work supporting the Bikini Atoll tests in the Pacific and the early concerns about the effects of a hydrogen bomb explosion illuminate the Dark Age of nuclear weaponry"--Publisher's description.
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LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos.
Hull, McAllister H., -- 1923-
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Nuclear energy -- Research -- United States -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Physicists -- New Mexico -- Biography.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos.
Hull, McAllister H., -- 1923-
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Nuclear energy -- Research -- United States -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Physicists -- New Mexico -- Biography.