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Inside the Los Alamos secret town where scientists built the atomic bomb — which you can visit today
Oppenheimer, leading the top-secret ... New York City at 270 Broadway. But Oppenheimer needed a more low-key place than New York to develop the weapons and test them. Enter the Los Alamos National ...
LANL director answers questions as lab works toward modernization
The Secret City is secret no longer. But, at least for some of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work, a classified shroud remains. On Tuesday, those interested got the chance to probe behind the ...
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The Women of Los Alamos
The women of Los Alamos were enclosed in an extraordinarily secret male enclave in which wives ... She worked for the Manhattan Project in New York City while her husband taught at Columbia ...
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How We See Oppenheimer. Plus: Smithsonian’s Inside Look at the Top-Secret Los Alamos Site
In the episode: Physicist-turned-photographer Minesh Bacrania shares his experience photographing inside the top-secret labs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and ...
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Atomic Secrets
In 1943 J. Robert Oppenheimer was named the director of the Bomb Project at Los Alamos, a self-contained area protected -- and completely controlled -- by the U.S. Army. Special driver's licenses ...