Defense Gallery
Exhibits in this gallery capture Laboratory's activities to fulfill its central mission to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent while reducing the global threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
Strengthening global security
The central mission of the Laboratory is to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent while reducing the global threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. As part of that mission, the Laboratory provides the necessary expertise and technology developed here to help the nation respond effectively to significant threats of broad scope and to help make the world a safer place.
Off-site Source Recovery
Nuclear Safeguards
Explosives
For more than 70 years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been a frontrunner in explosives research, development and applications.
"Explosions for Research"
9-minute film: Stockpile Stewardship: Heritage of Science at Los Alamos.
Journalist Miles O'Brien takes an inside tour of the nation's premier nuclear weapons design laboratory to see the amazing science, engineering, and computational tools used to maintain the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.
