Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Country: USA
- Role: Weapons Production
- Status: Operating
- Year: 1943
Overview
Founded on a New Mexico mesa in 1943 as Project Y of the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the first atomic bombs were designed. It remains a leading US weapons laboratory and is restarting production of plutonium pits for warheads.
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