Los Alamos National Laboratory (Organization)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
1942 AD - 1944 AD
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.
Los Alamos was selected as the top-secret location for bomb design in late 1942 and officially commissioned the next year, under the management of the University of California.
At the time it was known as Project Y and was the center for weapon design and overall coordination. Other labs, today known as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Hanford Site, concentrated on the production of uranium and plutonium bomb fuels. Los Alamos was the heart of the project, collecting together some of the world's most famous scientists, among them numerous Nobel Prize winners.
The lab's existence was announced to the world in the post-WWII era, when it became known universally as Los Alamos.
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Los Alamos ranch house,16 October 1945 Robert Oppenheimer (left), Leslie Groves (center) and Robert Sproul (right) at the ceremony to present the Los Alamos Laboratory with the Army-Navy E Award
