Los Alamos
Atomic City, New Mexico
Los Alamos is a town in northern New Mexico, built secretly during World War II as the headquarters of the Manhattan Project, where the first nuclear weapons were developed.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory remains a major nuclear research facility.
The name evokes the dawn of the atomic age: the scientists at Los Alamos, the Los Alamos test.
- plutoniumActinide, atomic number 94
- uraniumElement ninety-two
- Trinity testInitial nuclear weapon explosion
- Little BoyCodename for Hiroshima bomb
Fat Man · nuclear fission · chain reaction · implosion · gadget · Enrico Fermi · Richard Feynman · critical mass
Flat-topped steep-sided elevation
- Santa FeNew Mexico's seat of government
- EspañolaGalápagos island, southernmost major
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- high desertElevated arid region
piñon · juniper · Ancestral Puebloans · pueblo · canyon
Science of matter and energy
- supercomputingUltra-powerful computational processing
- nuclear stockpileStored warheads ready for deployment
- simulationImitation of real processes
- materials scienceStudy of engineered substances
neutrons · particle accelerator · theoretical physics · nanotechnology · bioscience · energy research · security clearance
Oppenheimer
- plutoniumActinide, atomic number 94
- uraniumElement ninety-two
- Trinity testInitial nuclear weapon explosion
Little Boy · Fat Man · nuclear fission · chain reaction · implosion · gadget · Enrico Fermi · Richard Feynman · critical mass · gun-type
mesa
Flat-topped steep-sided elevation
- Santa FeNew Mexico's seat of government
- EspañolaGalápagos island, southernmost major
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
high desert · piñon · juniper · Ancestral Puebloans · pueblo · canyon
physics
Science of matter and energy
- supercomputingUltra-powerful computational processing
- nuclear stockpileStored warheads ready for deployment
- simulationImitation of real processes
materials science · neutrons · particle accelerator · theoretical physics · nanotechnology · bioscience · energy research · security clearance
Hill
Surname or place name
- townsiteDesignated settlement land
- scientistsSystematic knowledge seekers
- housingDwellings or protective covering
gates · fences · isolation · community · ski hill · bedroom community · commuters
- New MexicoSanta Fe, Albuquerque, Taos, adobe, White Sands
- Southwestmesa, Monument Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Grand Canyon
- Nuclearnuclear reactor, atomic bomb, nuclear energy, atomic bombs, uranium
- California TownsSonora, Jackson, Columbia, Jamestown, Auburn
- Energy Departmentenergy policy, energy research, energy security, national labs, nuclear power
- Manhattan ProjectManhattan Project, Trinity test, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer, Oak Ridge
Los AlamosCERN
European nuclear research organization
public university · MIT · Bell Labs · Smithsonian Institution · Silicon Valley
Los AlamosHiroshima
First nuclear-struck city
Nagasaki · Ground Zero · Greenpeace · Bikini Atoll · peace movement