The Atom. Volume 15, Number 7 September 1978
Bill Jack Rodgers (Photography) and LeRoy N. Sanch Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus this issue. Wraps. 20 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on front cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Dividing fact and the fanciful: rugs, artifacts, and nondestructive testing; Glittering facts: Einsteinian magic: The 1978 Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture; Hoisting a 30-ton Crane: Constructional at Meson Physics Facility; Tests link cancer to body's natural defense system; Super-storage for West Coast power lines: helping the Bonneville Power Administration. This issue also includes the regular features of short subjects and 10 years ago. In 1968 Lt.-Gen. Harold C. Donnelly (USAF retired) assumed the duties of manager of the AEC's Albuquerque Operations Office. He had been the Commander of Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency at Sandia Base and director of the Defense Atomic Support Agency in Washington. There is a typographic error in the listing of the articles inside the front cover. What is stated as a 3-ton crane should be, per the actual article, a 30-ton crane. Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States 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 located 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. At the time it was known as Project Y, one of a series of laboratories located across the United States given letter names to maintain their secrecy. Los Alamos was the center for design and overall coordination, while the other labs, today known as Oak Ridge and Hanford, 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 site was known variously as Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory through this period. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Atomic, Los Alamos, Periodicals, LASL, LANL, John Ahearne, Nondestructive Testing, Meson Physics Facility, Barb Mulkin, Bonneville Power Administration, 30-ton Crane, Hoisting
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