Los Alamos Laboratory

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Los Alamos Laboratory was the secret U.S. research facility in New Mexico where the Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bombs during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Manhattan Project site
United States government research laboratory
nuclear weapons research facility
chiefScientist J. Robert Oppenheimer
codeName Project Y
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designed Trinity test device
developed Fat Man
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
surface form: Little Boy

first nuclear weapons
developedFor Allied powers in World War II
United States Army
director J. Robert Oppenheimer
employed Bruno Rossi
Edward Teller
Emilio Segrè
Enrico Fermi
Felix Bloch
George Kistiakowsky
Hans Bethe
I. I. Rabi
surface form: Isidor Isaac Rabi

John von Neumann
Joseph Rotblat
Klaus Fuchs
Luis Alvarez
Niels Bohr
Norris Bradbury
Richard Feynman
Robert Serber
Seth Neddermeyer
Stanislaw Ulam
established 1943
establishedDuring World War II
focus gun-type nuclear weapon design
implosion-type nuclear weapon design
fundedBy United States government
surface form: United States federal government
historicalPeriod World War II
locatedIn Los Alamos, New Mexico
New Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
militaryDistrict Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
surface form: Manhattan Engineer District
notableEvent completion of first atomic bombs in 1945
operatedBy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
United States Army
partOf Manhattan Project
purpose design and development of atomic bombs
research on nuclear fission weapons
relatedTo atomic bombing of Hiroshima
surface form: Hiroshima bombing

atomic bombing of Nagasaki
surface form: Nagasaki bombing
securityLevel top secret
successor Los Alamos Laboratory self-linksurface differs
surface form: Los Alamos National Laboratory
testSiteFor Trinity test site, New Mexico
surface form: Trinity nuclear test

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Los Alamos Primer associatedWithInstitution Los Alamos Laboratory
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Charlotte Serber workLocation Los Alamos Laboratory
Charlotte Serber employer Los Alamos Laboratory
White Rock, New Mexico servedBy Los Alamos Laboratory
this entity surface form: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Slotin employer Los Alamos Laboratory
subject surface form: Louis Slotin
plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core" locationDuringUse Los Alamos Laboratory
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plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core" associatedWithInstitution Los Alamos Laboratory
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George Cowan employer Los Alamos Laboratory
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Robert Bacher employer Los Alamos Laboratory
Richard Slansky employer Los Alamos Laboratory
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Nuclear bombs of the United States developedBy Los Alamos Laboratory
this entity surface form: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lois Platt Bradbury employer Los Alamos Laboratory
subject surface form: Norris Bradbury
Guaje Pines Cemetery, Los Alamos, New Mexico locatedNear Los Alamos Laboratory
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Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons collaboratingInstitution Los Alamos Laboratory
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Operation Greenhouse conductedBy Los Alamos Laboratory
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Wojciech H. Zurek employer Los Alamos Laboratory
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this entity surface form: Los Alamos Theoretical Division