The Atom. Volume 15, Number 10 December 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. 24 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on back cover. The Atom was published between 1964 and 1980. This issue has articles entitled Tracking the elk, magnificent neighbors; Twelfth annual meeting, LAMPF Users Group; Agnew announces resignation; A visit to the National Atomic Museum; and Reach for Antares. There is also a section on Ten years ago, which mentioned that Norris Bradbury had been named to the University of New Mexico Board of Regents. Also mentioned was the Sigvard Eklund, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the Laboratory. 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, Harold Agnew, Elk, LAMPF, Meson Physics, Users Group, National Atomic Museum, Norris Bradbury, Antares, Eklund, IAEA
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