Letter from the NSRC Director
This year, Los Alamos National Laboratory celebrates its 80th anniversary. It’s nothing short of incredible that, since 1943, our scientific innovation has changed the world. And, even more so, that we still do this today.
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A Tale of Two Bomb Designs
Why were both Little Boy and Fat Man created?
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Why didn’t Oppenheimer ever win a Nobel Prize?
For his scientific achievement, he would be forever known as the father of the atomic bomb—but never as a Nobel laureate.
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Those Who Believed in Oppenheimer
In 1953, J. Robert Oppenheimer received an ultimatum.
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Print to Digital
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Witness from the Sky
How the Lab photographed fireballs from above
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Charlotte Serber
The story of the Lab’s first female Group Leader
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Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers
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Oppenheimer biographer Tours Lab
Hollywood movie filmed locally; NSRC produces documentary
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Los Alamos and the British Mission
A partnership between countries that endures today
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