Los Alamos National Laboratory

Del af USA's atomvåbenindustrielle kompleks under Det amerikanske energiministerium.
Historie: Laboratoriet blev grundlagt under anden verdenskrig, i 1943, kaldet Procject Y, som et hemmeligt, centraliseret anlæg til at koordinere den videnskabelige forskning i i forskellige universiteter under Manhattan projektet, der udviklede de første amerikanske atombomber. Blandt de atomfysikere der arbejdede i Los Alemos kan nævnes: Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Robert J. Oppenheimer og Edward Teller.
Se også: Atomfysik ; Coalition to Demilitarize the University of California ; Albert Einstein, Federation of American Scientists ; Kiwi-A Prime Atomic Reactor ; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA ; Los Alamos Study Group ; Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico ; Trinity.

Litteratur

Final Report of the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Project. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010.
A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America's arsenal : Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory's work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads. / : Patrick Malone. Center for Public Integrity, June 18, 2017.
- https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/near-disaster/
Carl Malamud on behalf of the U.S. Congress: Continuing Security Concerns at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2007.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Tuesday, January 30, 2007.
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.house.energycommerce.013007.oi.hrg.lanl)
Chamberlain, Owen: Physicist at Los Alamos, Berkeley professor, 1950-1989, and Nobel Laureate : oral history transcript / 2000. Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
http://www.archive.org/details/physlosalamos00chamrich
Davis, Adam : What's In Your Glovebox? The Costs of Plutonium Exposure at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.archive.org/details/WhatsInYourGloveboxTheCostsOfPlutoniumExposureAtLosAlamosNational
Voice On Record 56, Aldous Huxley: Lecture to an audience at Los Alamos laboratories, Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams.
http://www.archive.org/details/Voice_on_record-56-aldousHuxley
William C. Elmore & Matthew Sands: Electronics-Experimental Techniques. Division V, Volume I of the National Nuclear Energy Series (Manhattan Project Technical Section). Atomic Energy Commission, 1949.
- http://www.archive.org/details/Electronics-experimentalTechniques

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