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2023 Issue

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IN THIS ISSUE

Letter from the Director
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.Read Nowabout the article: Letter from the NSRC Director
Featured
A Tale of Two Bomb Designs
Why were both Little Boy and Fat Man created?Read Nowabout the article: A Tale of Two Bomb Designs
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.Read Nowabout the article: Why didn’t Oppenheimer ever win a Nobel Prize?
Those Who Believed in Oppenheimer
In 1953, J. Robert Oppenheimer received an ultimatum.Read Nowabout the article: Those Who Believed in Oppenheimer
Articles
Print to Digital
Read Nowabout the article: Print to Digital
Witness from the Sky
How the Lab photographed fireballs from above Read Nowabout the article: Witness from the Sky
Charlotte Serber
The story of the Lab’s first female Group Leader Read Nowabout the article: Charlotte Serber
Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers
Read Nowabout the article: Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers
Oppenheimer biographer Tours Lab
Hollywood movie filmed locally; NSRC produces documentary Read Nowabout the article: Oppenheimer biographer Tours Lab
Los Alamos and the British Mission
A partnership between countries that endures today Read Nowabout the article: Los Alamos and the British Mission
Remembering J. Arthur Freed
J. Arthur “Art” Freed embodied his awarded title as a “Living Treasure” for the Los Alamos community, and before that for Los Alamos National Laboratory.Read Nowabout the article: Remembering J. Arthur Freed
Lab groups partner to change street sign
New spelling honors culture, revisits weapons legacy Read Nowabout the article: Lab groups partner to change street sign
How Nuclear Weapons Tests Were Named
How test names were chosen Read Nowabout the article: How Nuclear Weapons Tests Were Named
Richard P. Feynman
Safecracking, cipher-creating, and ‘the most brilliant young physicist’Read Nowabout the article: Richard P. Feynman
General Leslie R. Groves: A lifetime of construction and service
From his early Army years at West Point to his leadership of the Manhattan Project, Gen. Leslie R. Groves is remembered for a lifetime of extraordinary military service.Read Nowabout the article: General Leslie R. Groves: A lifetime of construction and service
30th Anniversary of Divider
It’s a blast from the past in more ways than one.Read Nowabout the article: 30th Anniversary of Divider
NSRC: Voyage of Discoveries
Read Nowabout the article: NSRC: Voyage of Discoveries