"Implosion at Los Alamos is a frightening expose that reveals failed security, crime, mismanagement, cover-ups and corruption at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Ground Zero for America's strongest defense against rogue nations and terroristic entities -- at least it should be."--cover.

"This is a collection of true stories of children coming to age under the routine threat of global annihilation and how they routinely coped with thinking about the unthinkable" -- back cover.

"Personal narrative of Candy Jones as she awakens to the sixty year nuclear legacy of New Mexico ... From key undertakings of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and the resulting Trinity explosion, to the potential construction of a new nuclear bomb factory (the 'modern pit facility') in New Mexico ... The film includes riveting interviews with former Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall, Navajo Tribal President Joe Shirley, the New Mexico Environmental...

This biography of Oppenheime explores how the West influenced J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist and person and how he influenced it. The author describes how Oppenheimer's life changed the course of history, as he helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico and transformed the area as the atomic West.

Examines the untold story behind the bungled nuclear espionage case, offering a portrait of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee and discussing the implications of the case for the development of nuclear weaponry and Sino-U.S. relations.

"George Cowan's memoir is an engaging eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as people, work as well. In discussing his career in nuclear physics from the 1940s into the 1980s, Cowan talks about some of his assignments in nuclear forensics, including President Harry Truman's skeptical review of the analysis of Russia's first atomic bomb test in 1949. Throughout his book, Cowan weaves in intriguing anecdotes about a large cast...