Nuclear Family
A Memoir of the Atomic West
$51.59
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2026
Summary
A lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.
Ty Bannerman’s family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to build nuclear bombs. This fact has become their origin myth, threaded into the very DNA of Bannerman himself, his relatives, and his children. No one on this planet has been untouched by the nuclear industry, but the Bannermans—working-class contributors to the atomic industrial comple…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826369024 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826369022 |
| Author: | Ty Bannerman |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Ty Bannerman is a gifted New Mexico journalist with deep roots in the life and times of his state. He has written a fascinating and thoroughly enthralling insider’s look at the intimate impact that both the national security establishment and radioactivity itself can have on a family associated with the operations of the Manhattan Project and its evolution into the shadow world of mutually assured destruction.” – V. B. Price, author of The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project and Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World
Ty Bannerman
Ty Bannerman is a writer, editor, and independent journalist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He cohosts the local history podcast City on the Edge while his YouTube channel, Meet Me in Dreamland, documents American history as reflected in its amusement parks and attractions.
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