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- Nearly half a million people, many of them Hispanos and Native Americans, lived within a 150-mile radius of the detonation—some only 12 miles away.
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Jul 27, 2023 · Yet even after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few weeks later—killing an estimated 110,000 to 210,000 people and effectively ending the war—government officials...
- Becky Little
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Los Alamos, New Mexico, was the site of Project Y, or the top-secret atomic weapons laboratory directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. The site was so secret that one mailbox, PO Box 1663, served as the mailing address for the entire town.
At the time, Los Alamos had a population of about 6,000. Project Y worked on calculations for the amount of material needed and for the construction of the bombs. This is a photo of Oppenheimer’s security badge for Los Alamos (from the Los Alamos National Laboratory archives)
- Marshallv
Los Alamos ( Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb —the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
Jul 30, 2023 · The world's first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in 1945, where hundreds of locals are still facing fallout from the test. Many are also fighting for compensation from the federal...
- New Hampshire Public Radio
Atomic Rivals and the ALSOS Mission, 1938-1945. Espionage and the Manhattan Project, 1940-1945. The final link in the Manhattan Project's far-flung network was the bomb research and development laboratory at Los Alamos, located in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
Sep 24, 2023 · Close to half of them commute to work from elsewhere in northern New Mexico and from as far away as Albuquerque, helping to nearly double Los Alamos’ population during the work week.
