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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Los Alamos

Not long before McCarthy’s speech, the purported Russian spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury and atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs was unmasked as a Russian spy embedded in the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

But while the Los Alamos team was developing algorithms for scientific visualization, they found that the mathematics behind the model had important weaknesses.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was reported missing last June.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Nor was the Los Alamos lab worker—responsible for purchasing office supplies—caught in a government assassination plot because of a top-secret life, McNally adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Notwithstanding Tellers grousing, Los Alamos actually was making significant progress on the Super.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik