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Author Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, author

Title Nuclear New Mexico : a historical, natural, and virtual tour / M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer ; with photographs by James E. Frost
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 200 pages)
Series American Wests
American Wests.
Contents The historical tour: where everything changed -- Trinity -- Bosque del Apache -- Spaceport America -- Alamogordo -- Carlsbad -- Los Alamos -- Bandelier National Monument -- Albuquerque -- Sandia Peak -- The shadow tour: dark legacies -- Grants Mineral Belt -- Church Rock -- Corners -- Dulce -- Roswell -- Valley of the Fires -- The literary tour -- The epic literature of modern times; or see you in the funny papers -- New Mexican novels and poems: the power of words and witchery -- Parting thoughts: tour, quest, pilgrimage
Summary 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 Wildlife Preserve; Los Alamos, wedged between Valles Caldera and Bandelier National Monument; and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, across from Carlsbad Caverns. More than just a glimpse into the history of the atomic bomb and the tourism it spawned within New Mexico, Nuclear New Mexico also examines the impact of nuclear testing within the rise of environmentalism. As readers explore New Mexico?s landscape and its history, they will recognize familiar uncertainties and concerns about their own special places on the planet as societies adapt to rapidly altered landscapes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2018)
Subject Nuclear weapons -- New Mexico -- Guidebooks
Nuclear weapons -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Landscapes -- New Mexico
Natural history -- New Mexico
American literature -- New Mexico -- History and criticism
Atomic bomb in literature.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
American literature
Atomic bomb in literature
Landscapes
Literature
Natural history
Nuclear weapons
SUBJECT New Mexico -- Guidebooks
New Mexico -- History, Local
New Mexico -- In literature
Subject New Mexico
Genre/Form Electronic books
travel guidebooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Guidebooks
History
Local history
Guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Palmer, Jacqueline S., author
Frost, James E., photographer
LC no. 2018012640
ISBN 9781623496890
1623496896