| 单词 | Los Alamos |
| 例句 | Yet instead of receiving recognition and gratitude, Los Alamos received “rather thinly veiled criticism” that it was not up to the job of weapons research and development. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z McMillan and Alvarez returned from Los Alamos impatient to try out new approaches they had conceived to address that old bugaboo, the relativistic barrier to higher energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first trial, of a Los Alamos device code-named Bravo, was a fiasco, though one that brought a sort of perverse credit to the Los Alamos lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many of Groves’s intelligence officers still didn’t trust the Los Alamos director. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was busy recruiting scientists for Los Alamos—but that didn’t mean he knew for sure an atomic bomb was technically possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs and the British team had moved from New York to Los Alamos in August 1944. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While they had dinner, Fuchs told Gold that the atomic bomb was being designed at a place called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z From the slugs of irradiated uranium, fissile plutonium would be extracted at a second plant ten miles away, eventually to be sent on its way to Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By 1944, Los Alamos was just one small part of the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s solution was to plant a false, but believable, story about what was happening at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the hearing’s more sinister features was its preoccupation with an encounter between Oppenheimer and his friend Haakon Chevalier just before work began at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stalin was screaming for the bomb, and Soviet scientists still needed more information from Los Alamos—they needed final reports on how the atomic bombs had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrangement with Teller, York reflected, was “peculiar,” but it did the job: “None of the strained relationships that had surrounded Teller at Los Alamos developed at Livermore.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He contributed very greatly to the success of the Los Alamos project.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was based on a realization that had come to him “lying in bed one night” at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He’s all ears and no mouth,” a fellow Los Alamos physicist complained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, the almost insupportable tension fostered a sort of mania. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Finally, tiring of his unending battles with Teller over research policy, in September 1951 Bradbury appointed Marshall G. Holloway, a Los Alamos veteran with a no-nonsense administrative style, as head of the thermonuclear division. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With Alvarez standing by, he put through a call to Edward Teller, who then was still at Los Alamos weighing UCLA’s offer to join its physics faculty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fuchs got to work and quickly became a valuable member of the Los Alamos team. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An accurate picture emerged only in 1954, when Norris Bradbury was granted permission to counter Teller’s public charges that Los Alamos had dragged its feet on the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Strauss reiterated his familiar theme that the cessation of testing would have “severe repercussions” for the clean weapons program and that Los Alamos and Livermore would “lose momentum” during the suspension. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was given a secret little book known as “The Los Alamos Primer,” made up of copies of the lectures Robert Serber had given the year before. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Los Alamos constantly worried that if it rejected a project, it would be seen, to its discredit, as “less ‘enthusiastic’ ” than its rival, Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly worried about losing his position at Los Alamos, he decided to tell Colonel Pash about the time, six months earlier, that his friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him about sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists at Los Alamos celebrated—and for a happy moment thought their job was done. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, most scientists first heard the news over the public address system. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, at Los Alamos, Klaus Fuchs splashed down a muddy path to the road where three buses were waiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Around Los Alamos after that,” explained Serber, “we called the bomb we were building ‘the gadget.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of it was shipped to Los Alamos for experimentation, the rest stored as feedstock for the Betas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The guiding principle was that a crash program to build the Super bomb required a Los Alamos of its own, and that place should be Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hall felt relaxed enough at Los Alamos to be himself, which meant doing things his own way. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, however, Norris Bradbury relished getting a breather from the relentless demand for more designs and more tests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The blast proved the feasibility of a controlled thermonuclear device so decisively that Teller claimed paternity immediately, wiring back to Los Alamos, “It’s a boy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On October 16, 1945, Oppenheimer officially resigned as director of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years had passed since Bradbury had offered an almost identical defense to the AEC’s Colonel Fields, but Teller had never ceased carping about Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Wilson expressed a theme echoed by many at Los Alamos: Oppenheimer inspired them to do things they didn’t think they could. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning to relax, Hall turned the conversation to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His unrelenting disparagement of Los Alamos had made inroads at the AEC, forcing Bradbury to shuttle to Washington to defend his team. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Teller’s departure from Los Alamos failed to quell interest in a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Groves talked it over with Oppenheimer and other scientists at Los Alamos, many of whom had studied and worked in Germany before the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it has been a long road, and I think one of the wisest things I ever did was when I selected the director of Los Alamos.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That confidence paid dividends when the board turned its attention to Robert Serber, who had been Oppenheimer’s right-hand man in theoretical physics at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It happened because the work at Los Alamos was proving even more difficult than Oppenheimer had expected. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some guessed that Los Alamos housed a secret military project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The car reached the top and pulled up to a gate with a sign reading Los Alamos Ranch School. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Meteorologists at Los Alamos scanned their weather reports, searching for a period of clear skies under which to stage the test at Alamogordo, some 250 miles to the south. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But Oppenheimer knew that it wasn’t just his reputation and career on the line at Los Alamos—it was the outcome of the biggest war in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves picked up his phone and called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and shouted, “Los Alamos cannot accept responsibility for the safety of the Oak Ridge plant!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ulam ran into the hall and was told that Oppenheimer was holding the first samples of plutonium to arrive at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 12, he traveled to Berkeley to recruit more brains for Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was not surprising that some Los Alamos scientists filled the air with horse laughs,” acknowledged York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Most division leaders at Los Alamos “wouldn’t work with him,” he recalled later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He gave Gold a quick update on the progress at Los Alamos and the upcoming test. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day Philip Morrison, one of Oppenheimer’s former students, removed the plutonium bomb core from a vault in the Los Alamos Tech Area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, Oppenheimer displayed the peculiar combination of personal charm and intellectual magnetism that would make him so effective a leader of the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He explained that he’d been unable to get away at Christmas as planned; things were just too busy at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The document set forth as the lab’s objective the “development and experimentation of methods and equipment for securing diagnostic information on behavior of thermonuclear devices. . . in close collaboration with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “All of this was elementary stuff at Los Alamos,” he recalled, “but they had never heard of any of it, so I appeared to be a tremendous genius to them.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you should say, ‘Los Alamos cannot accept the responsibility for the safety of the Oak Ridge plant!’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He also pressed for the University of California to renew its government contract to manage Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the success of Los Alamos seemed to make Teller even more insistent about a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And remember, whenever you leave Los Alamos, we will be tailing you.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Long lines of army trucks were seen driving up the narrow road to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Almost everyone knew that this job would be part of history. This sense of excitement, of devotion and of patriotism prevailed. Most of those with whom I talked came to Los Alamos.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer returned to Los Alamos, feeling what he described to a friend as “a profound grief, and a profound perplexity about the course we should be following.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, after years of agonizing frustration, Fitin could boast of having a physicist not just inside the Manhattan Project, but inside Los Alamos itself. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Gold didn’t know the details, David Greenglass was an army sergeant assigned to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the Russians demonstrate a Super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless,” he wrote in a frantic memo for a 1949 meeting on research priorities at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You know,” Greenglass said, still smiling, “there are several men at Los Alamos who might also be willing to furnish information. If you want me to, I can go right ahead and talk to them.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer in particular had evolved; he no longer was the aloof, self-absorbed intellectual who had gone off to Los Alamos anxious to prove himself in the world beyond theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By July 1945, Los Alamos would have just enough U-235 f°r one bomb, and it couldn’t be wasted on a test. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A car came, and Hall was driven to the top of a nearby mesa and through the gates of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Tellers invitation, Lawrence and Alvarez flew into Albuquerque, landing before dawn and arriving in Los Alamos at ten in the morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hall explained he’d be leaving in three days for Los Alamos, and, once there, would be nearly impossible to reach. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Teller’s intellect was indispensable at Los Alamos, but his presence was intolerable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the AEC’s dream of thermonuclear research blooming via a collegial relationship between Los Alamos and Livermore proved chimerical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Charlotte explained the mission to her husband, and they drove from Los Alamos to Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Others claimed Los Alamos was home for pregnant military personnel—or possibly a nudist colony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially when it came from the director of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment he’d heard “Southwest United States,” Gold figured Fuchs must be at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was their job to prepare the uranium for the bomb being designed at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A week at Balboa was interrupted by daily phone calls from Washington, New York, Los Alamos, and Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Neylan agreed to extend the contract only after Lawrence pledged not to spend any time on direct management of the Los Alamos lab, though he would have “free run” to consult on its research program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I was involved in this happy thing,” he remembered, “with the excitement running over Los Alamos—at the same time as the people were dying and struggling in Hiroshima.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Los Alamos staff returned from Operation Castle with a self- confidence they had not felt since the end of the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Driving back to Los Alamos that night, the Serbers knew their mission had failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 15, 1943 , about forty physicists gathered in what used to be the library reading room of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No need for the kind of costly trial and error that had taken place at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Teller’s obsessive personality created a managerial dilemma for Norris Bradbury, the able Berkeley-trained physicist who had succeeded Oppenheimer as Los Alamos director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The idea that America required a second weapons laboratory to supplement Los Alamos originated with Edward Teller and was driven by two factors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He said there was a man in Albuquerque who also worked at Los Alamos and who was ready to furnish me with information.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the workrooms, Los Alamos was a disaster. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Main Gate of the Los Alamos campus in the early 1940s. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Robert and Charlotte Serber had held security clearances at Los Alamos, where Charlotte served as the lab’s indispensable librarian. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On stage a few minutes later, Leslie Groves handed Oppenheimer a scroll— a certificate of thanks from the government to Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos staff. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, the British team of scientists began packing up to head home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ted Hall left Los Alamos and took the train home for two weeks of leave. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One day involved being flown to Los Alamos and then traveling below ground for the tests. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The occasion was Operation Castle, a test of Los Alamos and Livermore inventions at Bikini Atoll in March 1954. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Back in Los Alamos, Oppenheimer recorded his thoughts in a disconsolate letter to Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Teller continually disturbed the peace at Los Alamos, where uncertainties about the lab’s role in postwar research already had the staff on edge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Livermore seemed to be an auxiliary outpost caught between two larger labs, Los Alamos and Berkeley, and it was hardly unreasonable to wonder, with Rabi, if it would ever amount to more. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The suit baked Los Alamos that June, and no rain fell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The GAC had reached the conclusion that the intensified test schedule really was placing insupportable pressure on Los Alamos; sooner or later, Oppenheimer feared, the workload would erode the quality of the lab’s product. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Between Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other secret labs around the country, the Manhattan Project was employing more than 300,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs explained that he wouldn’t be able to get another leave from Los Alamos—everyone was needed for the final push to finish the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had become interested in chaos theory and was reading Los Alamos Science and the Journal of Statistical Physics. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Still eighteen, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she gave them directions to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While construction crews began expanding roads and nailing together new buildings at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer turned to his next task: “a policy of absolutely unscrupulous recruiting of anyone we can lay hands on.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He outlined a concept for a second lab as initially “a small group ... in support of Los Alamos and controlled thermonuclear work. . . We’ll start small and see what happens.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’d been unable to get away from his work at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Struggling to meet their final assignment from the Interim Commit tee, the four members of the scientific panel convened at Los Alamos on June 15. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Up on “the Hill,” as Los Alamos became known to its residents, Oppenheimer asked Charlotte Serber to step into his office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding Tellers grousing, Los Alamos actually was making significant progress on the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Its devices typically were more sophisticated and complicated than those of Los Alamos, and therefore harder to perfect via theoretical modeling rather than testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nolan is a sociologist at Williams College, but more significantly for this powerful and readable book, he is the grandson of James Nolan, chief of the military hospital at Los Alamos. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s possible to drive through the Los Alamos National Laboratory grounds with a wave of a driver’s license at the gate. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project Historical Park has its visitors center and tour exhibits in Los Alamos. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In real life, the German physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs worked at Los Alamos for part of the war and only confessed in 1950 to leaking atomic secrets to Moscow. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Wilson had come to know the city from business trips to Los Alamos National Laboratory nearby; she and her husband left Washington as soon as the Libby trial was over. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z But the world of Los Alamos isn’t, and neither are legendary physicists like Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr, who are both secondary characters in the first season. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z They spoke about the complex relationship the pueblo has had with Los Alamos over the decades. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z "Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project qualify as that." 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z An ethnic enclave, say, or hedge funders living in Greenwich, or the population of Cell Block E,/ or physicists in Los Alamos. Charles Yu Loves Reading With His Children. Don’t Tell Them. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z "Manhattan," filmed on location on the outskirts of Santa Fe, about a half-hour drive from Los Alamos, is using all that as a backdrop for the story behind the story, however. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, one part of the project, where the first bombs were designed and built. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “As the director of Los Alamos, I have to make sure that we have a safe, reliable and effective nuclear deterrent,” he said in an interview in Fuller Lodge. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Full of Life Flatbread In sleepy Los Alamos, this Thursday-through-Sunday artisanal pizzeria serves flatbread pies with local pistachio pesto and smoke-dried tomatoes. | California's Central Coast, Part One 2012-09-19T13:00:46Z Richard Cooper, a retired physicist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the bomb was invented, said he felt “mixed emotions” at the obelisk. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Alien studied computer science at M.I.T. and parlayed a connection there into a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which launched her into the information security world. Hacker for Hire 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A public intellectual with a flair for the dramatic, he directed the top-secret lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, taking the atomic bomb from theoretical possibility to terrifying reality in an impossibly short timeline. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z His Trinity performance, a collaboration with Biosphere and MFO, was inspired by the development of the atom bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Lustmord: ambient's dark star 2013-03-16T03:08:20Z “In my opinion, no,” says Charlotte Rowe, a geophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Spoiler Alert: The 8,000-Mile Hole in Total Recall 2012-08-06T12:00:43Z The greatest physicists in the world were assembled at Los Alamos, and their egos were immense, but they were lavish in their praise of Oppie's personal contribution: "He was very close to being indispensable." Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z Ruth Ammon, a production designer who previously worked on NBC's "Heroes" and Showtime's "Weeds," spent months building the show's stand-in for Los Alamos, at an abandoned military hospital on the outskirts of Santa Fe. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z "Beheld," an elegantly suspenseful historical fiction account of a murder in Plymouth by TaraShea Nesbit, the bestselling author of "The Wives of Los Alamos," further complicates the narrative of the early colony. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Half an hour north of Santa Fe lies Los Alamos, the true birthplace of the nuclear age. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Some years ago, Jennet Conant wrote an op-ed entitled “My Grandfather and the Bomb,” in which she revealed that “Los Alamos was the chief morality tale of my childhood.” An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Neither the Kens nor Los Alamos' scientists can break ranks without punishment. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Army who worked alongside Oppenheimer at the Los Alamos, N.M., laboratory where the bomb was developed. The Eyes of Cillian Murphy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z At the specially created laboratory at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer revealed extraordinary gifts of leadership, nursing a huge team of scientific prima donnas with passion, tact and skill. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z "Tiger Eyes" is about a teenager named Davey, whose family moved from New Jersey to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to start a new life after the murder of her father. Best-selling author Judy Blume hits big screen, finally 2013-06-06T16:36:13Z Los Alamos today is home to one of the highest per capita percentages of millionaires in America and a great concentration of scientists working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z For decades, Grothus ran a tongue-in-cheek thrift store/museum in Los Alamos called “the Black Hole,” which sold old scientific equipment from the National Lab. A new book tells the story of the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- one business card at a time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z He advised the United States government on atomic energy and worked on weapons problems during summer stints at Los Alamos. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z There, he handed it over to a security officer from Los Alamos, after first insisting that the officer book a locked compartment for his trip back to New Mexico. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Set in a top-secret lab in Los Alamos, "Manhattan" is a fictionalized retelling of the U.S. race to build the atomic bomb during World War II. Premiere of WGN America's 'Manhattan' draws in 1.8 million viewers 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Denver is the closest large city to Los Alamos and is an important engineering center. A new book tells the story of the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- one business card at a time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The Los Alamos Historical Society is just one of the online sources, and it has oral histories of some of the participants and firsthand witnesses. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Los Alamos remains the home of a national laboratory that still works on the nation’s nuclear weapons. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s true that he played the crucial role in secret atomic research conducted in Los Alamos, N.M., and that he would never escape central responsibility for creating the atomic bomb. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z But until now, at least, Los Alamos wasn’t subject matter that lent itself easily to a television series. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Jennet Conant is the acclaimed author of four previous books about World War II, including two best-selling volumes on Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z This is how, in Louisa Hall’s brilliant third novel, a young member of the Women’s Army Corps working at Los Alamos remembers the test of the first nuclear weapon, code-named “Trinity,” on July 16, 1945. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z So when actor Dermot Mulroney, a longtime cello player in Giacchino’s orchestra, appeared on The Late Show, he slid the title “Los Alamos” into his chat with Stephen Colbert, without knowing much about the project. What It Was Like to Compose the Rogue One Score in Four Weeks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z There will be a contingent in the audience from Los Alamos. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z However, at Los Alamos, where the bomb was designed and assembled, he rapidly metamorphosed into a marvellously efficient and charismatic administrator. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he led the development of the nuclear weapons that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Because that is where the top-secret initiative began before it migrated to Los Alamos, N.M., and concluded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z He had also sought drawings by children in Santa Fe, N.M., near Los Alamos, where the bomb was built. On College Campuses, a New Role for Students: Museum Curator 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z A dozen 1940s guest huts, originally used by Los Alamos scientists and infested by mice, remain off limits. Delicate Chinese Albums for Wealthy Show-Offs 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But in the popular imagination, Hanford looms less prominently than Los Alamos when it comes to stories about the dawn of the nuclear age. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z He had worked for a year on a screenplay about Los Alamos, so he said the power of atom bombs was on his mind. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z This spring Los Alamos pledged $25,000 in technical assistance to her business. One woman's quest for healthy beer gets a boost from the lab that birthed the atomic bomb 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z She’d visited Los Alamos National Laboratory — birthplace of the atomic bomb and 40 minutes northwest of Santa Fe — many times in her old life while doing classified work. Valerie Plame, America’s most famous ex-spy, finds her new identity 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Owen, also 12, has his own problems: he lives in terrible fear of his classmates' bullying at his dreary Los Alamos, N.M., middle school. 'Let Me In' Review: A Vampire Remake Worth Welcoming 2010-10-16T14:35:00Z He recalled the day he and his wife spent a few hours on the film’s set in Los Alamos. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project: Beyond the Bomb This new special recalls the lives of the families of Los Alamos, N.M., and the scientists who developed the first atom bombs. Friday's TV Highlights: 'A Capitol Fourth' on PBS 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z "This is Shangri-La," Isaacs is told by way of introduction to Los Alamos. 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Soldiers stationed at Los Alamos get drunk at dance parties that host both members of the indigenous tribe and Spanish-speaking Mexicans. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But he’s haunted by visions of apocalypse and increasingly distrustful of his government; at the end of the first season, he flees Los Alamos, only to be caught and imprisoned. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The key to these disparate displays appears in the second room, which contains only a video from the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, N.M. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z He’s been imprisoned on suspicion of being a spy; there’s a security leak in Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Usually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In the same year, a raving, naked, drug-fuelled Hopper was arrested while running around Los Alamos, New Mexico. Dennis Hopper obituary 2010-05-29T18:51:00Z Because of his valuable work he was sent in 1943 to the secret American project at Los Alamos to help create an atomic bomb. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Winter might be the most valuable mind in the military research facility of Los Alamos, but the government, in paranoia and suspicion, refuses to have him there any longer. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But the "Manhattan"-ites say that's precisely the point: It's too soon to gauge the full impact of what unfolded at Los Alamos. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z From New Jersey von Neumann would travel the country, teaching and consulting, most consequentially at Los Alamos. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Down the road from their home in the desert was the Los Alamos National Lab, the birthplace of the Manhattan Project, and Heyman’s best friend’s step-father was an acclaimed chemist. Science and sex cults: rocketeer Jack Parsons hits the small screen 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The bride, 32, is a pediatrician at the Los Alamos Children’s Clinic in Los Alamos, N.M. Elizabeth MacLean, Nicholas Anderson 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z That shift leads the book to Los Alamos during wartime, though it is notably more colorless than other accounts of the guarded community there. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The cake, from a recipe by Edith Warner, the Los Alamos teahouse owner who served the physicists during the Manhattan Project, was rather uninspiring. Dance Review: After Science Meets Art, Everyone Gets Some Cake 2011-03-29T21:47:54Z Frank is one of the leading physicists at Los Alamos heading a small team of young scientists trying to come up with a better way to produce plutonium. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His “Los Alamos” received the Edgar Award for best first novel. Library of Congress National Book Festival: History Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "We developed a neural network that allows us to represent a large system in a very compact way," said Javier Santos, a Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher who applies computational science to geophysical problems. New twist on AI makes the most of sparse sensor data 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Under the overall leadership of Perelson, Los Alamos has been a global leader in modeling viral infections, including HIV, since the mid-1990s. Pinpointing HIV immune response 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Scientists and military officials established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles away. ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare fuels record attendance at New Mexico atomic site 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z About 200 locals, many of them Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, were extras in the film, and the city hosted an Oppenheimer Festival in July. ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare likely to fuel record attendance at New Mexico’s Trinity atomic bomb test site 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z “A university like Stanford is not Los Alamos National Laboratory,” Kivelson said at a recent talk given to Asia Pacific American Justice Task Force. Broken U.S.-China Science Cooperation Needs Repair, Not Persecution 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Santos is first author of a paper published by a team of Los Alamos researchers in Nature Machine Intelligence on the novel AI technique, which they dubbed Senseiver. New twist on AI makes the most of sparse sensor data 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z To isolate the role of the T cells, the Los Alamos team ran the model to predict the effects of treating groups of infected macaques variously with antibodies and antiviral drugs. Pinpointing HIV immune response 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The notoriety from “Oppenheimer” has been embraced in Los Alamos, more than 200 miles north of the Tularosa Basin. ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare fuels record attendance at New Mexico atomic site 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z “Any advancement in superbolts is fascinating; they’re very rare and difficult to track,” says Michael Peterson, an atmospheric scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the new study. The science of 'superbolts,' the world's strongest lightning strikes 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Close to half of them commute to work from elsewhere in northern New Mexico and from as far away as Albuquerque, helping to nearly double Los Alamos’ population during the work week. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z She took a job as a consultant for Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she helped study the ecological and health impacts of nuclear research. People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The Los Alamos team then ran the model to analyze the macaque data to determine the effects of the different immune responses. Pinpointing HIV immune response 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Los Alamos scientists are having intense discussions about weapon design - how much each can weigh, its explosive punch, how far it must travel. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Bob Webster, deputy director of weapons at Los Alamos, said scientists have relied on computer models to determine how well such old pits might work, but “everything we’re doing is extrapolating,” he said. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z While advancements in technology have changed the way work is done at Los Alamos, some things remain the same for this company town. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z At Los Alamos, workers’ uniform allowance now covers sports bras. This is what it’s like to maintain the US nuclear arsenal 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer ran the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II, managing a team of the smartest physicists he could recruit. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The very next morning, Naomi sat down with Ruth for a four hour interview, in the course of which she gave Ruth names and addresses of women who had worked at Los Alamos with her. They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That None of Us Would Forget 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Webster has been at Los Alamos since Ronald Reagan was president. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z With most people in Los Alamos connected to the lab, opposition is rare. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Technicians at the Los Alamos National Lab conduct similar evaluations, putting plutonium under extreme stress, heat and pressure to ensure it is stable enough to blow up as intended. This is what it’s like to maintain the US nuclear arsenal 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z My father’s family farmed on the Los Alamos plateau, before the land was seized to develop the first atomic bomb. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Ruth Howes: If you count the women who ran the calculators at Los Alamos and the technicians at Chicago, you get huge numbers. They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That None of Us Would Forget 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Los Alamos scientists are having intense discussions about weapon design — how much each can weigh, its explosive punch, how far it must travel. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Los Alamos taps into regional schools as a generational pipeline. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Just like the technicians in Kansas City, the ones in Los Alamos closely examine the tested parts and radioactive material to see if they caused any damage. This is what it’s like to maintain the US nuclear arsenal 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z She went to Hanford, she went to Los Alamos and she eventually went to Oak Ridge, which was unique because the project was so segmented. Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z However, Don continued to face pressure, particularly from George Kistiakowsky, a physical chemist who had gone to Los Alamos to develop explosives. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The Los Alamos lab has added more than 4,000 employees in that same time frame. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Los Alamos became an open city when the security gates came down in 1957. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z In Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” the military asks the architect of the Manhattan Project what he’ll do with Los Alamos now that the bombs have been dropped. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Not long after news of Hiroshima’s destruction arrives, Oppenheimer gives a would-be-triumphant speech to a euphoric Los Alamos crowd, only for his words to turn to dust in his mouth. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z That spring, the couple sold their Massachusetts home and their sailboat, bought a 1937 Ford Coupe and drove to Los Alamos, New Mexico. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z While the private-sector managed Los Alamos and Kansas City plants have hired personnel to meet the rising workload, the military has struggled to fill jobs and retain experienced technicians. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The film put the spotlight on Los Alamos and its history, prompting more people to visit over the summer. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z The work at Los Alamos will only intensify. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z The meeting was held in a campground outside of Los Alamos, and we were a scruffy-looking bunch of backpackers and tree huggers. Are humans a cancer on the planet? A physician argues that civilization is truly carcinogenic 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z And she wasn’t at Los Alamos when the Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The core of every nuclear warhead is a hollow, globe-shaped plutonium pit made by engineers at the Energy Department’s lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atom bomb. Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z With the lab being the largest employer, Los Alamos also boasts the highest per-capita levels of educational attainment with many residents holding master’s degrees and Ph.Ds. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Before J. Robert Oppenheimer pulled up stakes for Los Alamos, he was just another physics professor renting a room in the Berkeley Hills. Oppenheimer's former Berkeley rental listed for $1.5 million 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Forest Service also recently acknowledged that another 2022 fire in northern New Mexico that burned near Los Alamos was caused by prescribed fire operations. Compensation for New Mexico wildfire victims tops $14 million and is climbing 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Hafner: A special shout-out to the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory for helping us tell the stories of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The lack of Native American representation in “Oppenheimer,” which includes a lengthy sequence in which the Los Alamos scientists perform the Trinity test, has stirred a parallel backlash. Critics say omitting the Japanese toll makes 'Oppenheimer' 'morally half-formed' 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Katie Hafner: So pretty much all of Los Alamos then retrenched around a different design, an implosion weapon that would become the Trinity device and then the Fat Man bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Much of Oppenheimer’s life after Los Alamos had to do with the question of whether to develop the hydrogen bomb. Science, Destroyer of Worlds—And Movie Scripts 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Just as the film "Oppenheimer" is cagey about the exact nature of Bohr's role in the Manhattan Project, historians in real life aren't entirely clear on what exactly Bohr did at Los Alamos. Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Both the University of California and Texas A&M are part of the consortium that runs the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory. Profiteers of armageddon: Oppenheimer and the birth of the nuclear-industrial complex 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Unnamed in the film, he’s Richard Feynman, later to be revered as Caltech’s resident genius but, at 24, attached to the Los Alamos bomb lab at the very beginning of his scientific career. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z If none of that had happened, who knows how much more slowly things would have gone at Los Alamos. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Before his tenure at Los Alamos, Chadwick's career had developed in Manchester, often described as the birthplace of nuclear physics. James Chadwick: The Brit chief who worked on the nuclear bomb 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Scouting locations took the team throughout the western U.S. and finally back to northern New Mexico, where the Army’s real top-secret Manhattan Project was located at Los Alamos National Laboratory. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Though the Oppenheimer film focuses on Los Alamos, it quickly came to include far-flung facilities across the United States. Profiteers of armageddon: Oppenheimer and the birth of the nuclear-industrial complex 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer was merely the boss of Los Alamos, one of the project’s numerous separate labs and technical installations. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z She also found her life partner at Los Alamos, as many people did while working there. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z In 1943, Chadwick travelled as head of the British mission to Los Alamos in the US, where scientists were developing the first atomic bomb. James Chadwick: The Brit chief who worked on the nuclear bomb 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Constructing the world of Oppenheimer fell to production designer Ruth De Jong, who drew up an elaborate recreation of Los Alamos, then rendered it as a giant 3D model. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Years after the war, she returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory to study the effects of radiation on the human body. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z He originally wanted Lawrence to run the lab that was eventually built at Los Alamos, but decided Lawrence was too important to be limited to the bomb-designing task. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A special shout-out to the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory for helping us tell the stories of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Eighty-one years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tasked the young physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer with setting up a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. Oppenheimer Offers Us a Fresh Warning of AI’s Danger 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z “Is our Los Alamos an exact replica?” says De Jong. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z This may sound simple, but Los Alamos was a dangerous place to work, and it was highly secretive. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z It was due to his influence that UC was awarded the contract to run Los Alamos after the war, which it still holds, albeit with somewhat diminished authority. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z In the film, both the test site and the Los Alamos Laboratory in Northern New Mexico are remote, unpopulated areas — a depiction that’s largely in line with most historical accounts of the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by Hispanos and Native Americans 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Sponsors of the law, including Republican state Sen. Crystal Diamond of Elephant Butte and Democratic state Rep. Christine Chandler of Los Alamos, say debt-based license suspensions are counterproductive. New Mexico lifts debt-based suspensions of driver’s licenses for 100,000 residents 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The original Trinity site is still an operational Army base, about 260 miles from Los Alamos, where the top-secret Manhattan Project was based. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z At Los Alamos in New Mexico, the Army took over 54,000 acres, some of which was land where ancestral Pueblo had previously lived for centuries. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Forest Service says its own prescribed burn started a 2022 wildfire that nearly burned into Los Alamos, New Mexico. US Forest Service burn started wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, agency says 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z For Cordova, the ethnic makeup of Los Alamos and the White Sands testing site is central to why they were chosen, and how the downwinders have been treated since. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by Hispanos and Native Americans 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The five remaining members of the Manhattan Eight started their careers at Los Alamos. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z In 2021, he made an unannounced visit to the Los Alamos History Museum taking the standard tour, then returning several times to use the archives. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In 1944, he became an associate director at Los Alamos and stayed for more than a year. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Author and journalist Jennet Conant, who has written seven books about World War II, including "109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos," elaborated on this point. Atomic truth: Unraveling the reality behind "Oppenheimer" and nuclear weapons 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Today, Hanford is one of three sites — along with Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamos — in the recently created Manhattan Project National Historical Park. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z She arrived at Los Alamos in November 1943, holding various posts over the next couple of years. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Environmental management officials at Los Alamos said they expect to complete remaining cleanup activities at the lab by 2043 at an estimated cost of about $7 billion. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Because of the highly classified nature of the Manhattan Project, Aggie had no idea who Fermi was when he came to Los Alamos. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Part of the environmental cleanup mission requires an examination of history, White told those gathered at the historic Fuller Lodge in the heart of Los Alamos. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, US officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The physicists at Los Alamos may get all the glory. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z After World War II ended, Annie applied for an overseas transfer with the War Department along with her suspected lover, who’d also resigned from Los Alamos. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Mikolanis said his office plans to unveil an interactive map this fall that will include estimates of the waste at Los Alamos that is stored above ground and that which has yet to be unearthed. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z On the afternoon of May 21st, 1946, a group of scientists was gathered around a metallic sphere in a lab at Los Alamos to observe an experiment. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Still, the GAO pointed to weaknesses in oversight by the Office of Environmental Management at Los Alamos. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, US officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z When the Trinity test comes at Los Alamos after the toil of some 4,000 people and the expense of $2 billion, there’s a palpable, shuddering sense of history changing inexorably. Movie Review: A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Gertrude, who worked in Los Alamos’ scientific laboratory, got the FBI’s attention when a childhood neighbor described her as “being very mannish in appearance and not considered to be attractive to men.” The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Part of the environmental cleanup mission requires an examination of history, White told those gathered at the historic Fuller Lodge in the heart of Los Alamos. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Aggie returned to Los Alamos, where it all started, to work in the health research laboratory as a radiobiologist. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z “We hope this report galvanizes DOE-EM to enact change in Los Alamos.” In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, US officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z And it’s Oppenheimer who will successfully propose moving his family and many others to Los Alamos, N.M., where a top-secret laboratory and soon an entire town is built to accommodate a closely-monitored staff of thousands. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The first seeds of paranoia arrived when the distinctive fedoras of Hoover’s FBI agents began appearing in droves as Los Alamos opened its badge-issuing office in 1943. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Still, the GAO pointed to weaknesses in oversight by the Office of Environmental Management at Los Alamos. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Floy Agnes Lee: I think the worst effect of Los Alamos, not just on the Pueblo, but the surrounding area is the radiation that has caused leukemia. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Mikolanis said his office plans to unveil an interactive map this fall that will include estimates of the waste at Los Alamos that is stored above ground and that which has yet to be unearthed. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, US officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z While film critics celebrate “Oppenheimer” and officials in Los Alamos prepare for the spotlight to be on their town, downwinders remain frustrated with the U.S. government — and now movie producers — for not recognizing their plight. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Agents swarmed everywhere, lurking just beyond the fences of the Manhattan Project sites, when Ellen Bradbury Reid’s father moved his family from Tennessee to work alongside Oppenheimer at Los Alamos. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z “We hope this report galvanizes DOE-EM to enact change in Los Alamos.” In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The CDC conducted this project to evaluate releases of materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory that had the potential to cause off-site health hazards. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Environmental management officials at Los Alamos said they expect to complete remaining cleanup activities at the lab by 2043 at an estimated cost of about $7 billion. In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, US officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The legacy of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project means Los Alamos is home to one of the nation’s premier national laboratories and has the highest percentage of people with doctorate degrees in the U.S. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z With World War II behind it and the dawn of the Cold War emerging, the U.S. national security apparatus that created Hanford and Los Alamos was awash with paranoia. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The men celebrated the deal with martinis, christening the project with the same toast favored by Oppenheimer with the scientists of Los Alamos: “To the confusion of our enemies!” Oppenheimer’s big screen odyssey: The man, the book and the film’s 50-year journey 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z This blog post from the Los Alamos History Museum provides scans and a transcript of Manhattan Project physicist Phil Morrison’s official letter reporting on the Slotin accident. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer and his peers at Los Alamos would test it on July 16, 1945, not knowing what was going to happen. In ‘Oppenheimer,’ Cillian Murphy finally gets to lead a Christopher Nolan film 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z About 200 extras used in the film were locals, many of them Los Alamos National Laboratory employees. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Helen, a nurse at Los Alamos Medical Center who lived with another woman who was equally “sour on men” after unhappy marriages, according to an informant, had voluntarily left her job. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z In time, Sherwin amassed some 50,000 pages of declassified government documents outlining Oppenheimer’s years as director of the Los Alamos lab and the subsequent loss of his security clearance during the panic of McCarthyism. Oppenheimer’s big screen odyssey: The man, the book and the film’s 50-year journey 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z St. Louis was part of a geographically scattered national effort to build a nuclear bomb that was tested in Los Alamos, New Mexico. How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer headed the secret Los Alamos Laboratory, established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan returns with latest blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The goal is to position Los Alamos as a place where people can begin to learn “the true stories” behind the events depicted in the film, Stewart said. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Inside Hanford and Los Alamos, the science hub of the Manhattan Project, secrets were currency and paranoia reigned. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z It also would prioritize the cleanup of Cold War-era waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the birthplace of the atomic bomb. New Mexico negotiates settlement over permit renewal for US nuclear waste repository 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z At the arid Los Alamos site in New Mexico where weapons were developed, for example, waste was thrown into nearby canyons. How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z People expected this Los Alamos anomaly to go away. The Weirdest Particles in the Universe 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The Fermi paradox takes its name from a 1950s visit by physicist Enrico Fermi to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project, a secret military operation housed in a former boarding school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, succeeded in creating and then detonating an atomic bomb on July 16. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Nuclear watchdog groups said they were in support of the agreement because it focuses on the waste at Los Alamos and requires more transparency about legacy defense-related waste around the U.S. New Mexico negotiates settlement over permit renewal for US nuclear waste repository 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Garcia held an an electrical engineering degree from the University of New Mexico and worked 25 years for Los Alamos National Laboratory before retiring in 2003, according to the school’s statement. Native American leader and advocate for tribal sovereignty Joe A. Garcia dies at 70 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Their first idea to look for neutrinos was to take advantage of the nuclear weapons testing being done during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, right? The Weirdest Particles in the Universe 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z “Conventional agricultural practices are super intense,” says Evan Thaler, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who specializes in agricultural soil erosion in the Midwest. More Frequent Dust Storms Could Be in Our Future 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” due in cinemas on July 21, is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic physicist who, along with his peers at Los Alamos, developed the atomic bomb and changed the world. Excitement builds for Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ at CinemaCon 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Los Alamos, New Mexico—Behind a guard shack and warning signs on the sprawling campus of Los Alamos National Laboratory is a forested spot where scientists mimic the first moments of a nuclear detonation. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z ALife’s unofficial kickoff came in 1987 at the first Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the field gained the legitimacy of a name. Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z But they knew that that was a little too frivolous to put in the description of the experiment for approval by Los Alamos, so they found the metric equivalent, which was roughly 40 meters. The Weirdest Particles in the Universe 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He now works as a government affairs specialist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Can this town save itself from fentanyl addiction? The race to turn around a threatened community 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The artist, who splits her time between Düsseldorf, Germany, and Los Alamos, Calif., considers the work to be an immersive sculptural installation that’s also a drawing in space. 16 high-intensity lasers, 800 pounds of blood-red yarn: The Hammer goes big in new immersive spaces 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “We know at some point there will be a nonlinear piece,” says David Clark, director of Los Alamos’s National Security Education Center and editor of the Plutonium Handbook. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z A lack of humidity and dust controls in one lab led to repeated delays in providing radiation sensors to the Idaho National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory for identifying nuclear materials. U.S. measurement institute’s labs said to need major upgrade 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most authoritative belongs to the scholar Siegfried Hecker, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratories who has visited North Korea’s nuclear facilities. North Korean defector lays out South Korean rationale for seeking nukes 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The surge in fentanyl addiction and homelessness is testing his town, whose economy is largely reliant on those commuting about 17 miles away to jobs at the Los Alamos lab. Can this town save itself from fentanyl addiction? The race to turn around a threatened community 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z According to the GAO, some of the construction projects and upgrades needed for the work at Los Alamos won’t be finished for several years. US nuclear agency falls short on scheduling, cost estimates 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Christopher Fryer, head of Los Alamos’s Center for Nonlinear Studies, has found that the weapons codes still contain computational tricks conjured up decades ago by Manhattan Project luminaries such as Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Another Los Alamos nuclear scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was investigated by the FBI in 1999 as a suspect in the loss of warhead secrets. How China pirated U.S. technology to rapidly expand its nuclear weapon arsenal 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Between 1987 and 2021, at least 162 scientists who had worked at Los Alamos traveled to China for work on sensitive projects, including 15 who were formerly on the staff at the lab. China’s nuclear forces built in part with U.S. technology 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Democratic members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation have supported expanding production at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the once-secret installation that helped with development of the atomic bomb. New Mexico seeks tougher provisions for US nuclear dump 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z In the 1940s at Los Alamos in New Mexico, in great secrecy, he led the scientific effort that devised the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer Cleared of ‘Black Mark’ After 68 Years 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Los Alamos theoretical physicist Mark Paris is working on a numerical approach to solving the nonlinear differential equations that pulse throughout the weapons codes. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Lee was charged with removing magnetic computer tapes from Los Alamos’ X Division, where nuclear weapons are designed. How China pirated U.S. technology to rapidly expand its nuclear weapon arsenal 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z “The Los Alamos case shows how China’s rapid advances in certain key military technologies are being aided by individuals who participated in sensitive U.S. government-funded research,” the report said. China’s nuclear forces built in part with U.S. technology 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Among the 89 new and continuing picks on the list of Michelin-starred restaurants in California are Orsa & Winston in downtown Los Angeles, Nisei in San Francisco and Bell’s in Los Alamos. A Look at What California Has Done So Far About Reparations 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z At least one of the returning scientists in “the Los Alamos Club” held a top-secret Q clearance granted to those with access to nuclear secrets. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In that sense, Fryer says, Los Alamos’s Center for Theoretical Astrophysics “is a deterrent.” Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It was carried out in remote locations, such as Los Alamos, New Mexico, whenever possible, and eventually came to cost billions of dollars and employ the efforts of more than 100,000 people. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Another Los Alamos nuclear scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was investigated by the FBI in 1999 on suspicion he was a suspect in the loss of warhead secrets. China’s nuclear forces built in part with U.S. technology 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Democratic members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation fought to ensure Los Alamos would be among the benefactors of the billions of dollars and thousands of jobs that will stem from the mission. Watchdog groups call review at US nuclear lab ‘sham’ process 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman for Los Alamos referred questions to the National Nuclear Security Administration, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Three residents of Santa Fe and Los Alamos counties filed a lawsuit seeking to remove Griffin from being commissioner of Otero County’s 2nd district for the rest of his term. Cowboys For Trump leader fighting to keep job in New Mexico 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z “I think it’s very unlikely that this was the same object but it’s fun to entertain the possibility,” Mark Boslough, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, said in an email. The source of a resounding boom over Salt Lake City? Probably a meteor. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Lee was charged with removing magnetic computer tapes from Los Alamos’s X Division, where nuclear weapons are designed. China’s nuclear forces built in part with U.S. technology 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The group pointed to more than $19 billion in new construction and operational costs for Los Alamos’ new plutonium core production mission through fiscal year 2033. Watchdog groups call review at US nuclear lab ‘sham’ process 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The Strider report outlines several key technologies the authors say were developed by former Los Alamos scientists. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “From the Arctic, we can learn what may be waiting for the globe in the next couple decades,” said Chylek, the Los Alamos researcher. The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the Planet 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The new findings are bolstered by those of another recent study, led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which found similar rates of warming, although over a different time span. Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But where he finds the Biofinder’s general nature to be a plus, Patrick Gasda, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, sees the lack of specifics as the approach’s main downside. New Instrument Could Spy Signs of Alien Life in Glowing Rocks 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “I don’t always cry it off into oblivion and have people having to fan my face,” cracked Ealey, who went to high school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and attended Oklahoma State. Shot putter Chase Ealey earns 1st US gold at worlds champs 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z One scientist, Chen Shiyi, worked at Los Alamos in the 1990s and later headed the Southern University of Science and Technology where he helped recruit other scientists with experience at Los Alamos. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The uncertainty stands in contrast to the reaction to a fire in 2000 that was set by the National Park Service and destroyed hundreds of homes in Los Alamos, N.M. The Government Set a Colossal Wildfire. What Are Victims Owed? 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z “We’re not saying Colorado is going to become a desert. But we see increased aridity moving forward,” said hydrologist Katrina Bennett at the federal government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Colorado will lose half its snow by 2080 and look more like Arizona, federal scientists conclude 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z A wildfire on the outskirts of Los Alamos National Laboratory was 85% contained Tuesday. Cold weather slows spread of big wildfires in New Mexico 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Near the community of Los Alamos, crews made progress on keeping another fire within its containment lines. New Mexico fires prompt forest closures, governor seeks aid 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z At Los Alamos, Mr. Zhao worked with a researcher who filed a patent on similar penetrating-bomb technology upon returning to China. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “What we’re trying to do at Los Alamos is figure out how do you implement prescribed fire safely … given that it’s exceedingly hard with climate change,” he said. Menaced by flames, nuclear lab peers into future of wildfire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Crews also were battling a smaller fire near Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key government facility for nuclear research that has been tapped to ramp up production of plutonium components for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. New Mexico wildfire grows; California fire destroys mansions 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z In northern New Mexico, officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory and residents in the nearby town are prepared to evacuate if a wildfire burning there moves closer. Wind is wild card in fires burning in New Mexico, Arizona 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in northern New Mexico, a wildfire near the federal government’s key facilities for nuclear research prompted Los Alamos National Laboratory and others in the area to begin preparing for evacuations. Wind is wild card in fires burning in New Mexico, Arizona 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Another former Los Alamos scientist, He Guowei, helped China develop quieter submarines capable of evading detection. Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Sunday also saw the residents of Los Alamos alerted about possible evacuations early this week, as the Cerro Pelado Fire to the west of Santa Fe picked up in the high winds. Winds fuel New Mexico wildfire, complicating containment efforts 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Fire crews worked to widen a road that stands between the fire and Los Alamos while clearing out underbrush and treating the area with fire retardant. President declares disaster in New Mexico wildfire zone 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z A separate fire burning in the mountains near Los Alamos National Laboratory prompted the evacuation of about 200 homes. Residents wary as fire burns near northeast New Mexico town 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Another New Mexico wildfire burning in the mountains near Los Alamos National Laboratory also prompted more evacuations over the weekend and other communities were told to get ready to evacuate if conditions worsen. Wildfire in northeastern New Mexico expected to keep growing 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z A separate fire burning in the mountains near Los Alamos National Laboratory also prompted more evacuations over the weekend. Wind-whipped fire forces more New Mexico residents to flee 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z So Kahn, Abbamonte, and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory are exploring “narrow bandgap” semiconductors such as a compound of europium, indium, and antimony. To crack the mystery of dark matter, physicists turn to supersensitive quantum sensors 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Many of his colleagues in Princeton and Los Alamos were shaken by the loss. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 5: La Jolla 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The latest report from a federal oversight board also cited three recent incidents, including one in which a container from Los Alamos National Laboratory was placed underground without adequate analysis for its flammability. Report: Fire training, equipment lacking at US nuclear dump 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z And it’s a time before Los Alamos had its own computer…when the ENIAC, which lived in Aberdeen, Maryland, was the most powerful machine around. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z One of the sites where the plutonium cores will be manufactured is Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb. US nuclear agency opens massive office complex in New Mexico 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z When we left off, two atomic bombs had just destroyed two cities in Japan, ending World War II. Klári had arrived at Los Alamos, the place where those bombs were created. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The container that caused that release had been inappropriately packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico. Discovery of radioactive liquid pauses work at US nuke dump 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z One was a fire involving a salt-hauling truck that was followed days later by a radiation release from a drum that had been inappropriately packed at Los Alamos. Report: Fire training, equipment lacking at US nuclear dump 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z So, this post-war moment…it was a strange one for Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Los Alamos remains a center of government research today–and it still has some pretty strict policies on communication. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z This story starts in Los Alamos…at the end of World War II. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Following the Capitol breach, Martin lost his top-secret-level clearance and his job in Los Alamos, N.M., with an Energy Department contractor that supports the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. U.S. judge acquits Jan. 6 defendant who said he was waved in by police 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Students, many of whose parents work in ranching or at Los Alamos National Laboratory, ride the bus for as long as an hour to get to school. The pandemic took their coaches, but not their dream Some of them left Los Alamos because of this. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z During World War II, Los Alamos was the site of Project Y, one of several arms of the Manhattan Project. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z At Los Alamos they were still using those punch-card machines we heard about in the last episode. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He added that Martin showed consciousness of guilt when his Los Alamos supervisor texted him that night, admonishing, “You can’t overrun the capital building.” U.S. judge acquits Jan. 6 defendant who said he was waved in by police 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z For 18 years, they commuted together to Los Alamos, where both worked in security. The pandemic took their coaches, but not their dream Those scientists who wanted to stay at Los Alamos and continue advancing nuclear weapons technology–this is what they were trying to do. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z And so, human computers were still essential at Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The laboratory at Los Alamos needed something much more powerful. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z District Court in Washington, D.C., covers more than a dozen records requests made since 2017 by the Los Alamos Study Group. US nuclear agency sued over public records requests 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z On a side table was a framed letter from the Los Alamos director, praising Leo and Leonard’s “work protecting special nuclear material, classified material, and … employees” and the “important life lessons” they taught local youths. The pandemic took their coaches, but not their dream But, there was no sophisticated computer on site at Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He even gestured to future computing opportunities where he was in Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z So in the early summer of 1947, they were both hired as contractors by Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3: The Experimental Rabbit 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Prosecutors said Martin, an engineer, worked for a government contractor at the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and held a top-secret security clearance on Jan. 6. Man who testified at his Capitol riot trial awaits verdict 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a very interesting idea,” says Carrie Manore, a researcher in mathematical modeling at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was not involved in the new study. How Much Medieval Literature Has Been Lost? 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z So in the summer of 1947, she joined this Los Alamos netherworld from all the way in Princeton…She was a remote worker before working remotely was even a thing. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z It might have to do with the nature of Los Alamos itself. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, recited a line from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Martin said he actually worked at a different facility in Los Alamos. Man who testified at his Capitol riot trial awaits verdict 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z A snowstorm rolled in when we were in Los Alamos, N.M., and if I’d been in another car, I would probably have waited for the snow to pass before I set off out of town. Opinion | Help. I’ve Fallen for That Cadillac Escalade. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z And as the person who had done the coding and overseen the run, Klári traveled alone to Los Alamos to share the results with the scientists there. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In fact, most of the scientists at Los Alamos were stuck there. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Michelle Keaton, a training manager at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, said she first bought into vaccines — to a degree — before changing her mind. For many COVID-19 vaccine opponents, no jab means no job 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “It looks grim, but it needs to be tested and we don’t know how these mutations will act together,” said Bette Korber, a theoretical biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Omicron mutations alarm scientists, but new variant first must prove it can outcompete delta 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Some employers, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, also imposed mandates in recent months for workers to be “fully vaccinated.” New Mexico governor: Full vaccination means boosters, too 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z He was concerned about his lack of experience, but the higher ups at Los Alamos assured him that this was okay. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He was granted this special permission since his brain was needed elsewhere to advance the very work he was doing in Los Alamos. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The birthplace of the atomic bomb, Los Alamos is one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons facilities. More workers sue US nuclear lab over vaccine mandate 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The first significant change in the virus was identified by Bette Korber, a theoretical biologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The coronavirus is still mutating. But will that matter? 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the birthplace of the atomic bomb — faced a deadline Friday to get vaccinated or risk being fired. Cities, police unions clash as vaccine mandates take effect across U.S. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And one of the computers that was modeled on it at Los Alamos was also nearing completion there and I believe started to run in 1952. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Back at Los Alamos, bomb development was well under way. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory - the birthplace of the atomic bomb - faced a deadline Friday to get vaccinated or risk being fired. Cities, police unions clash as vaccine mandates take effect 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Attorneys for the lab argued in court Thursday that being vaccinated was a condition of working at Los Alamos. New Mexico judge denies lab workers’ claim in vaccine fight 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Some of the employees who are part of the lawsuit have worked for Los Alamos lab for decades, while others are newer hires who have relocated to New Mexico from other states and countries. Dozens of US nuclear lab workers sue over vaccine mandate 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And finally, it happened; by 1952, both the Institute for Advanced Study and Los Alamos had their own more powerful computers. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But, even with training in physics or mathematics, the human computers at Los Alamos were often left in the dark. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Tsingou originally came to work at Los Alamos as a mathematician, but when the opportunity arose, she became one of only a few people at the time who learned to program the MANIAC. An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Los Alamos lab on its website touts the breadth of its scientific capabilities, saying it has been helping to answer questions about the pandemic. New Mexico judge denies lab workers’ claim in vaccine fight 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Several other models, including one from Los Alamos National Laboratory, forecast daily deaths rising into October. U.S. covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z So, this netherworld, as Los Alamos had been during the postwar period, it became something much more conventional. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z With the war now over, Los Alamos loosened its restrictions. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Still living in Los Alamos with her husband, Joe Menzel, she expresses surprise at the significance of the experiment she programmed almost 70 years ago. An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z This effect, discovered by Los Alamos’ late Robert Malone in 1985, has now been verified by observations. Understanding Pyrocumulonimbus, a.k.a. ‘Fire Clouds’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Adventures of a Mathematician Historical drama about a 30-year-old Polish Jew who escapes from Europe to the U.S. in the 1930s and later works on a mysterious project in Los Alamos, N.M. Virtually every movie coming to theaters or streaming this fall 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z At Los Alamos, computing, coding…This was initially open to someone like Klári -- a consultant who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z NIC LEWIS: …which was the worst time to visit Los Alamos ever because the pipes were freezing over and the town was without water. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Authorities at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over Los Alamos National Laboratory is off limits. US authorities warn against flying drones over national lab 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Our team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with other collaborators, has focused on studying algorithms for quantum computers and, in particular, machine-learning algorithms—what some like to call artificial intelligence. Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement and the No-Go Theorem 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The watchdog groups said Tuesday that the agency took a piecemeal approach to decide on locating the production at Los Alamos and the Savannah River Site, where nearby communities are already underrepresented and underserved. Groups sue Biden admin over planned expansion of nuke work 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z After 1952, Klári did continue to share her expertise with scientists and programmers at Los Alamos, but she never had the same leadership role that she took on in those early Monte Carlo runs. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The work fits well with Los Alamos’ history of pioneering new developments in computing as part of our national security mission. DNA: The Ultimate Data-Storage Solution 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Morgan Gorris, an earth systems scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, used climate-warming scenarios to project how much of the U.S. might become friendly territory for Coccidioides by the end of this century. Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z George A. Keyworth II was a physicist from Los Alamos — the birthplace of the atomic bomb in New Mexico. Biden Has Elevated the Job of Science Adviser. Is That What Science Needs? 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The list includes a goal of sending 30 shipments from the birthplace of the atomic bomb - Los Alamos National Laboratory - to the federal government’s underground waste repository in southern New Mexico. New Mexico demands more of US when addressing nuclear waste 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z If it goes after companies spilling chemicals or it haggles with Los Alamos National Laboratory over hazardous waste cleanup, then it must forgo dealing with other violations. New Mexico officials: More money needed as duties increase 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Energy Department lacks substantive and appropriate targets for dealing with waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory. New Mexico goes to court over slow cleanup at US nuclear lab 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The findings were first publicly announced earlier this month at a meeting organized by the New York Academy of Sciences by Dr. Bette Korber of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Two mutated coronaviruses have merged into one hybrid virus. Here's how that happened 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Energy Department last week, asking that a rigorous environmental review be done before production is ramped up at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico and the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z State Rep. Christine Chandler, whose district includes the once secret city of Los Alamos, described the federal government’s lack of attention to Los Alamos cleanup requirements as beyond disappointing. New Mexico demands more of US when addressing nuclear waste 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In Los Alamos Canyon, for example, specialists indicated there were about 400 to 500 trees per acre. Audit raises concerns about wildfire risks at US nuclear lab 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Officials with the Energy Department and Los Alamos National Laboratory did not immediately respond to questions about the complaint. New Mexico goes to court over slow cleanup at US nuclear lab 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of atomic bombs, designed a new container for the Berkeley team. Einsteinium Is Mysterious. Scientists Have Unlocked Some of Its Secrets. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, both New Mexico Democrats, did not respond to questions about whether they would support a more extensive environmental review for the work planned at Los Alamos. Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “And doing a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement is just a basic protection of constituents, citizens of Santa Fe County, to protect them from what may or may not happen in Los Alamos.” County commission wants Los Alamos lab to conduct study 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The birthplace of the atomic bomb, Los Alamos has experienced hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and damage from major wildfires over the last two decades. Audit raises concerns about wildfire risks at US nuclear lab 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z The governor’s reopening plan was developed with input from health officials and a scientific modeling team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. School bill challenges New Mexico virus restrictions 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z “The similarity in this part of the periodic table teaches us principles of structure and bonding,” said Dr. Clark, the scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Einsteinium Is Mysterious. Scientists Have Unlocked Some of Its Secrets. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The mission of producing the plutonium cores began at Rocky Flats in the 1950s and was eventually moved to Los Alamos in the late 1990s. Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Miko was a junior at Los Alamos High School and was involved in Junior ROTC, choir and the German program. Police: Boy Scout from New Mexico dies camping in Colorado 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Battelle is also involved in other national labs, including Los Alamos in New Mexico, Oak Ridge in Tennessee and Lawrence Livermore in California. New contractor chosen for Savannah River National Lab 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed, also uses it, as do major military contractors. Billions Spent on U.S. Defenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In an article on Monday, The New York Times cited a number of organizations as vulnerable that are not cited on the public client page, including Boeing and Los Alamos National Laboratory. SolarWinds hides list of high-profile customers after devastating hack 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z So does Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed, and major defense contractors like Boeing, which declined on Monday to discuss the attack. Scope of Russian Hack Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z As early as the mid-1990s, the F.B.I. was called in for an investigation into networks that included Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, which work on nuclear weapons design, among other issues. Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z At least that’s the implication of new research that we are conducting in Los Alamos National Laboratory to understand systems that operate much like the neurons inside living brains. Lack of Sleep Could Be a Problem for AIs 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Work at the repository was derailed in February 2014 after an inappropriately packaged drum of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory released radiation and contaminated part of the underground facility. Watchdog: US nuclear dump facing space, staffing challenges 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z At this point, only Los Alamos County, anomg 33 counties, would be eligible to shed some restrictions on mass gatherings and to resume indoor dining at restaurants, according to the state’s coronavirus dashboard. One county is eligible for reopening under new virus system 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The most famous was Morris Cohen, who helped steal nuclear weapon blueprints from Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Democratic Rep. Christine Chandler of Los Alamos questioned an Energy Department official during the meeting about why more shipments of Cold War-era waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory are not being sent to the repository. Watchdogs push New Mexico to limit US nuclear waste dump 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The advance was scooped by Nicholas Metropolis and his group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Berni Alder (1925–2020) 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z “This machine will advance our ability to study the most complex physical systems for science and national security,” Jason Pruet with Los Alamos’ advanced simulation and computing program said in a statement. Hewlett Packard gets $105M contract for new supercomputer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Slightly to the west in Sonoma County is the Shady fire, which is prompting evacuation warnings above Kenwood, along Los Alamos Road. Photos: Napa and Sonoma counties under assault from Glass and Shady fires 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Miles Beaux, a physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is leading a team working on its own design that uses "ultra lightweight aerogel materials." As a helium shortage looms, "vacuum balloons" could save physics, medicine, and birthday parties 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Related workplaces ran the gamut from Los Alamos National Laboratory to big box retailers, a junior high school, fast food outlets and a farmers market. New Mexico governor says Trump ‘botched’ pandemic response 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Prosecutors said in a court filing that Mr. Lookman, a senior scientist at Los Alamos, “lied over and over to conceal his relationship with the United States’ chief foreign adversary.” Los Alamos National Lab scientist recruited by China, sentenced 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The Murphys moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Modesto, California, in the 1940s, and to the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport when he was a high school senior. Jack ‘Murph the Surf’ Murphy, Heist Mastermind, Dies at 83 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z He also voiced concerns about the proposed federal budget request for cleanup work at Los Alamos, noting that more money is being funneled toward the production of plutonium cores used for the nuclear arsenal. New Mexico frustrated with slow cleanup of radioactive waste 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The Los Alamos Monitor announced on its webpage that the decision was shared with staff Friday by officials with Landmark Community Newspapers. Los Alamos newspaper to call it quits after decades in print 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Frank Pabian, a former satellite image analyst at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, located a desert site that seemed to match the facility described in The Journal article. U.S. Examines Whether Saudi Nuclear Program Could Lead to Bomb Effort 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z A Los Alamos spokesman and the office of the U.S. Los Alamos National Lab scientist recruited by China, sentenced 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Jim had been recruited right out of college to work on a top-secret project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Cleanup work at Los Alamos - the birthplace of the atomic bomb - is governed by a consent decree with the state. New Mexico frustrated with slow cleanup of radioactive waste 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Officials said Monitor staff will continue to print a sister newspaper, The Las Vegas Optic, until a buyer is found for the newspaper building in Los Alamos. Los Alamos newspaper to call it quits after decades in print 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The last full-scale underground test was done Sept. 23, 1992, by scientists with Los Alamos National Laboratory at the Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. Groups push to remove proposed funding for nuclear testing 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He worked for 20 years as a professor in Canada before joining Los Alamos, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported. Los Alamos National Lab scientist recruited by China, sentenced 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z He mentioned a $1 million contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory that will provide funding to support the training of more than 50 students as radiological control technicians and nuclear-trained operators. Northern New Mexico College looking to get past lawsuits 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Los Alamos is preparing to resume production of the plutonium cores that serve as triggers for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Anniversary of world’s 1st atomic test fuels nuclear debate 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Most of the work at Los Alamos was devoted to creating a design for a plutonium bomb. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s been nearly a decade since the last plutonium cores were made at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico for Navy submarine missiles. Atomic anniversary brings US nuclear official to New Mexico 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Los Alamos was a major target of Chinese intelligence collection in the 1990s when at least one scientist was charged with providing secrets about U.S. nuclear weapons to China. Los Alamos National Lab scientist recruited by China, sentenced 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z She’s scheduled to lead a commemoration Thursday at the historic V-Site at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where early testing and some assembly of the atomic bomb took place. Atomic anniversary brings US nuclear official to New Mexico 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z And then there was the challenge of transporting the nuclear material from the Hanford reactor in Washington state to Los Alamos and then down to the test site. Anniversary of world’s 1st atomic test fuels nuclear debate 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The core arrived from Los Alamos via guarded caravan on July 13 and was hoisted to the tower the next day. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “Wildfire plumes are complex and change quickly,” said Allison Aiken, an atmospheric chemist at Los Alamos and co-author of the study. Study points to smaller effects of wildfire smoke on warming 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The FBI, however, botched its investigation of one of the suspects in the nuclear spying, Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. Los Alamos National Lab scientist recruited by China, sentenced 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The work will be split between Los Alamos and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Atomic anniversary brings US nuclear official to New Mexico 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Monday that 15 workers were being evaluated after a breach involving a gloved box that was being used to handle the material. US nuclear lab investigates breach at plutonium facility 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The Los Alamos software flags genomes whose instructions for making the spike proteins vary from the original Wuhan sequence by 0.3% or more. The coronavirus has changed since it left Wuhan. Is it more infectious? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The groups pointed to a 2005 settlement involving a dispute over an air permit related to the expansion of nuclear weapons work at Los Alamos. Groups call for meetings as US lab preps for weapons work 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “We lose more than we gain,” Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico and now a professor at Stanford University, said in an interview. A New Superpower Competition Between Beijing and Washington: China’s Nuclear Buildup 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Under the nuclear agency’s plan, Los Alamos would be responsible for making 30 pits a year and the rest would be produced at Savannah River. Atomic anniversary brings US nuclear official to New Mexico 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Los Alamos is preparing to resume and ramp up production of the plutonium cores used to trigger nuclear weapons. US nuclear lab investigates breach at plutonium facility 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The Los Alamos draft drew intense scrutiny when it was released in the spring, and many researchers remain skeptical of its conclusions. This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z State officials said the Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration must account for the cumulative effects of failing to prioritize the cleanup of contamination from decades of work at Los Alamos. Groups call for meetings as US lab preps for weapons work 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The rivalry between Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico provides a particularly valuable check, scientists say. Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The most ever made at Los Alamos in a year was 11. Atomic anniversary brings US nuclear official to New Mexico 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z To meet a mandate set by the federal government to replace the nuclear stockpile’s aging plutonium cores, the work is being shared by Los Alamos and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. US nuclear lab investigates breach at plutonium facility 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The county offered to provide part of the land, comprising three defunct technical areas in White Rock, to Los Alamos National Laboratory to build support facilities and enhance its operations. New Mexico county seeks free land from US energy department 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Also profiled are the scientists at Los Alamos, like Robert Oppenheimer and Don Hornig, who built the weapons dropped on Japan. Review | Stories of those who built the bomb, those who used it and those who survived it 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Sandia is responsible for the design and engineering of the system’s non-nuclear components, while Los Alamos is responsible for producing detonators and other components. US officials laud successful B61 tests over Nevada desert 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Allen has spent 40 years at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in his career at the United States Geological New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, basically watching trees die. Death of the giants: Forests getting shorter, younger, in Northwest and elsewhere 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Los Alamos began as a secret city in the mountains of northern New Mexico where government scientists and the military gathered as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb. US nuclear lab investigates breach at plutonium facility 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Los Alamos’ housing shortage impedes business growth because there are too few people living in town to attract new retailers, the proposal said. New Mexico county seeks free land from US energy department 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z There also would be a report that a Los Alamos National Laboratory fire official told a Bandelier supervisor not to do a prescribed burn May 4 because fuels were extra dry. Fire remains burned into New Mexico’s memory 20 years later 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z In another preliminary study, scientists at Sheffield University and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico found similar mutations in the spike protein which the authors claim may help the infection to spread. Will Covid-19 mutate into a more dangerous virus? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z |
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