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A Boeing B-52 strategic bomber being prepared for EMP testing at Trestle in 1982.. ATLAS-I (Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), better known as Trestle, was a unique electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation and testing apparatus built between 1972 and 1980 during the Cold War at Sandia National Laboratories near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1943 UT–Battelle (since April 2000) [5] 4,368 US$2,130,000,000 Ames National Laboratory: Ames, Iowa, 1947 Iowa State University (since 1947) 310 US$58,000,000 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Upton, New York, 1947 Brookhaven Science Associates (since 1998) [6] 2,989 US$572,000,000
The National Defense Authorization Act is used annually by Congress to fund defense facilities around the U.S. Here's what is coming New Mexico's way. Here's what New Mexico will get out of the ...
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) is a 3,083.8 mi (4,962.9 km), off-road bicycle touring route between Jasper, Alberta, Canada and Antelope Wells, New Mexico, USA. Completed in 1997, the GDMBR was developed by Adventure Cycling Association , who continue to maintain highly detailed route maps and a guidebook.
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 ...
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 commission contends records show The New Mexico Project received at least $15,000 from one contributor, and spent more than $5,000, the monetary threshold required for reporting of independent ...