Our response to the nation's call is still only as good as the capabilities we have built here at Los Alamos. Creativity and innovation are our greatest capabilities.

Today, the Laboratory's mission is undergoing tremendous change because of major new challenges to national security.

Access to energy resources is now of vital concern, and research is needed to develop and perfect alternative, renewable energy sources.

Just as important is the exchange of information, which is one of the central pillars of the nation's economy and which relies on an infrastructure of databases, communication satellites, and the Internet, all built in the last 30 years.

The need to protect that fragile infrastructure and maintain the command and control of our utilities poses a tremendous security challenge.

Los Alamos is being asked to provide powerful solutions to these new problems, and as in Oppenheimer's time, innovation will be central to our efforts.

The Laboratory's innovative spirit is much in evidence at the Trident facility, in the Milagro project's detection of high-energy gamma rays, and in the development of web-based research tools, all addressed in 1663 science stories.

Read more about our scientific achievements in our DiscoverLANL Center.