Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1993. The Laboratory's 50th Anniversary issue--Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [6], 237, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Further Reading. The cover is worn and soiled, and there is come curving at the bottom fore-edge corner. Includes sections on Perspectives on the Laboratory, The Stewardship of Nuclear Weapons, Science and Innovation at Los Alamos, and Science Policy: Past and Future. Among the contributors are Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, John Immele, Stephen Younger, Susan Seestrom, Robert Seidel and Siegfried Hecker! Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest. Best known for its central role in helping develop the first atomic bomb, LANL is one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions. Los Alamos was established in 1943 as Project Y, a top-secret site for designing nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project during World War II. Chosen for its remote yet relatively accessible location, it served as the main hub for conducting and coordinating nuclear research, bringing together some of the world's most famous scientists, among them numerous Nobel Prize winners. After the war ended in 1945, Project Y's existence was made public, and it became known universally as Los Alamos. Today, Los Alamos conducts multidisciplinary research in fields such as national security, space exploration, nuclear fusion, renewable energy,[10] medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing. More