LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY Los Alamos
The isolated desert region of Los Alamos, New Mexico served as the site for top-secret atomic bomb research and development. Approved by General Leslie Groves on November 25, 1942 and headed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos saw hundreds of scientists and engineers work together to develop the Gadget, the world’s first nuclear test device, Little Boy, the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and Fat Man, the plutonium-fueled atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Learn more about the key players and lasting legacies at this secret community that forever changed the world.
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Last updated: April 5, 2023