| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Jon Hunner. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 288. $29.95.
This book is a fascinating account of the changing fortunes of the town in the mountains of New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were made. Jon Hunner argues that what began as "a wartime army post" during World War II became "a permanent fixture in the nation's nuclear firmament" during the Cold War years (p. 3). As he charts the city's transformation, he opens a window into both the key episodes of the atomic age and the transformation of suburban America.	1
Hunner describes the social history of the community by focusing on the influences of four main spheres: scientific, residential, regional, and federal. He begins with the decision of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to situate the weapons laboratory charged with creating the bomb at the rugged and barely accessible Los Alamos Ranch School and relates how the "instant city" that was "as raw as a new scar" grew into a thriving locale (pp. 32, 36). While the first plans envisioned a community of some 300 people, it soon expanded into a city of about 6,000 individuals.	. . .

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