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Los Alamos Study Group – an Albuquerque-based group opposed to nuclear weapons; Site Y: Los Alamos A map of Manhattan Project Era Site Y: Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos National Laboratory Nuclear Facilities, 1997; Machinists who assembled the atomic bomb.
At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion.
Project Gasbuggy was an underground nuclear detonation carried out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on December 10, 1967 in rural northwestern New Mexico.It was part of Operation Plowshare, a program designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosions.
The site would be near the border of Eddy and Lea counties, and Holtec received a license in May 2023 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) amid opposition from New Mexico state leaders ...
The site selected for Gnome is located roughly 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in an area of salt and potash mines, along with oil and gas wells. [1] Unlike most nuclear tests, which were focused on weapon development, Shot Gnome was designed to focus on scientific experiments:
Sep. 19—As part of a New Mexico expansion, a Califonia-based energy company is building out a space at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Kairos Power LLC, a renewable energy and manufacturing ...
One of Sandia's first permanent buildings (Building 800) was completed in 1949. Sandia National Laboratories' roots go back to World War II and the Manhattan Project.Prior to the United States formally entering the war, the U.S. Army leased land near an Albuquerque, New Mexico airport known as Oxnard Field to service transient Army and U.S. Navy aircraft.
A bill was passed by the Senate March 7, sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to do so, offering payments to an expanded list of states including New Mexico, and increasing the amount available ...