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Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb —the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
Bob Lazar. Robert Scott Lazar (/ ləˈzɑːr /; born January 26, 1959) is an American conspiracy theorist. In 1989, Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he also purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien ...
Reporting on the Atomic Age. William Leonard Laurence (March 7, 1888 – March 19, 1977) was a Jewish American science journalist best known for his work at The New York Times. [ 1] Born in the Russian Empire, he won two Pulitzer Prizes. As the official historian of the Manhattan Project, he was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test ...
Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Crescent, Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets.
August 15, 2024 at 9:55 PM. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Watchdogs are raising new concerns about legacy contamination in Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and home to a renewed effort ...
Los Alamos County (English: "The Poplars" or "Cottonwoods"; Spanish: Condado de Los Álamos) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census , the population was 19,419. [ 1 ] The smallest county by area in the state, Los Alamos County was formerly administered exclusively by the U.S. federal government during the Manhattan ...
Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American [1] condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018, and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017. [2] Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the ...
Doctoral advisor. W. Gilbert Clark. John Louis Sarrao (born February 1, 1967) [citation needed] is an American physicist. He was the deputy director for science, technology, and engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [1] [2] As of 2 October 2023, he became the sixth director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [3]