It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

Its main drawback was its proximity ... which opens this summer. Los Alamos is still an active national laboratory, and the Manhattan Project sites are still off limits to the public.

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Skip To Content Join the Conversation ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

Los Alamos, which is best known for being behind the atomic bomb’s Manhattan Project and Trinity test site in New Mexico, is federally funded and part of the U.S. Department of Energy.