Los Alamos

Tuesday:

Naturally, with all the top secret programs going down the actual lab
is off limits. So the Bradbury Science Museum had to do.

Los Alamos was chosen as the site for Project Y of the Manhattan
Project because its location was remote and beautiful enough to do
outdoor testing year round. It was also enough of a desirable
location to satisfy the tastes of the "primadonna" scientists.

The museum is an exhibition for a lot of the technology and sciences
that have dominated the news of yesterday and today. All kinds of
weapons displays as well. One of the central responsibilities of the
lab is to maintain the U.S. Nuclear arsenal. I watched an interesting
film on how nuclear weapons are now tested as broken up individual
components since the Nuclear Test Ban is in effect.

Pictured here are warning leaflets to the Japanese at the end of WWII
right before the Cold War started.