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