Sep 17, 1996 | 402 Pages
Introduction: Kivas, Moradas, and the Secrets of the Nuclear Age
I. Four Magic Mountains
1. Phaedrus’s Ghosts
2. The Depth of the Atom
3. The Height of the Sky
Tesuque Interlude: The Riddle of the Camel
II. "The Cold, Gray Cave of Abstraction"
4. The Demonology of Information
5. The Undetermined World
6. The Democracy of Measurement
San Ildefonso Interlude: The Mystery of Other minds
III. "A Fever Matter"
7. The Dawn of Recognition
8. The Arrival of the Fittest
9. In Search of Complexity
10. In the Eye of the Beholder
Truchas Interlude: The Leap into the Unknown
Conclusion: The Ruins of Los Alamos
