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Los Alamos County (English: "The Poplars" or "Cottonwoods"; Spanish: Condado de Los Álamos) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census , the population was 19,419. [ 1 ] The smallest county by area in the state, Los Alamos County was formerly administered exclusively by the U.S. federal government during the Manhattan ...
Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Poplars) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
Location of Los Alamos County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Alamos County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
Parts of Sandoval County and Santa Fe County. Named for its county seat of Los Alamos, New Mexico, which itself is the Spanish name for the cottonwood tree 19,444: 109 sq mi (282 km 2) Luna County: 029: Deming: 1901: Parts of Doña Ana County and Grant County. Solomon Luna (1858–1912), the largest land owner in the county at the time of its ...
The town in Los Alamos was erected to stealthily develop and test the Manhattan Project, a.k.a. the atom bomb, and according to the United States Department of Energy, government officials wanted ...
Pages in category "History of Los Alamos County, New Mexico" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic ...
Apr. 25—Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional ...