Los Alamos

American  

[laws al-uh-mohs, los] / lɔs ˈæl əˌmoʊs, lɒs /

noun

1. a town in central New Mexico: atomic research center.

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Los Alamos British  

/ lɒs ˈæləmɒs /

noun

1. a town in the US, in New Mexico: the first atomic bomb was developed here. Pop: 18 343 (2000 est)

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Example Sentences

Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

If that seems like a mouthful, here’s the takeaway from researchers themselves: Allen Scheie, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, says the result “raises the bar for what can be expected from quantum computers.”

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

"This breakthrough replaces century-old simulations and approximations of configurational integral with a first-principles calculation," said Duc Truong, Los Alamos scientist and lead author of the study published in Physical Review Materials.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

That was in 1992, and we actually took the cadets on a field trip to Los Alamos where the first nuclear weapon had largely been developed.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Still eighteen, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist at Los Alamos.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin