Exhibits in this gallery capture our history in the secret town of Los Alamos and its role with the Manhattan Project.
January 18, 2019
Los Alamos, once the site of a boys’ ranch school, became the focus of the secret project to develop a new weapon, one that derived its power from splitting the atom.
The Atomic Age begins
The conflict that darkened Europe in the late 1930s at first cast no shadow here on the sunny Pajarito Plateau, but soon World War II shook the entire world. Los Alamos, once the site of a boys’ ranch school, became the focus of the secret project to develop a new weapon, one that derived its power from splitting the atom.
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Don't Miss
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. (9 min.)Racing Toward DawnThe Bradbury Science Museum's signature history movie about Los Alamos National Laboratory.
History Gallery Exhibits
The Atomic Age Timeline
Manhattan Project History
They Changed the World: The People of Project Y at Los Alamos
