Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade

Description

Author: Furman, Necah Stewart

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unread.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated)  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Corporate history.   Sandia National Laboratory was an outgrowth of the atomic bomb program developed at Los Alamos during World War II.  Sandia Corporation was officially conceived in 1948, as a facility for nuclear engineering and assembly (“Albuquerque?  Where the hell is Albuquerque?”).  My father was hired at Sandia in 1952, as one of their first 9 computer programmers, and worked there until he retired in 1979.  And oh, the stories he could tell.  Almost everyone I knew growing up had a parent that worked at Sandia.  Albuquerque would not be the city that it is without Sandia.  It is a primary economic engine for the city.  Sandia’s role has expanded well-beyond nuclear engineering, to include energy production, materials science, and nanotechnology, among others.  For an organization chart of Sandia (to see all the things they’re involved in) see  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514461