los alamos

     

Spanish for "The Poplars", the first hydrogen bomb was designed there

Trivia about los alamos

  • A letter from Einstein to FDR is on display at the Bradbury Science Museum in this city, birthplace of the atomic bomb
  • It's no longer top-secret: this smallest county in New Mexico was created in 1949
  • A New Mexico community & this national lab were ravaged by a fire that began as a controlled burn on May 4, 2000
  • In 1942, people from the Manhattan Project set up shop at a boys' ranch school in this N.M. community
  • In 1942 this comparatively isolated New Mexico place was chosen for an atomic research lab
  • While working on the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer was 39 & living in this New Mexico town
  • Bohr escaped Europe during WWII, eventually making his way to this atomic research center in New Mexico
  • The 6-foot Oppenheimer weighed 115 lbs. as director of this New Mexico lab in the early 1940s
  • Edward Teller notified this New Mexico lab site about the first successful H-bomb test with "It's a boy"