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Los Alamos

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

noun

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


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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Oklo partnered with Nvidia to use AI for modeling and simulations, supporting nuclear fuel research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

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

Researchers at The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have introduced a new computational approach designed to solve one of the most difficult problems in statistical physics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

And when I toured the Los Alamos lab right after the collapse of the other great superpower of that moment, the Soviet Union, it was curious how glum the people I met there were.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik