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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Los Alamos

UC still has connections with Los Alamos as a co-manager of the lab there that goes back to the Manhattan Project of World War II. The Guardian has an interesting contemporary portrait of Los Alamos - originally built as a secret city:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/nov/01/atomic-city-los-alamos-secret-town-nuclear-millionaires

For deeper history, we again recommend the BBC series - now on YouTube for free - which deals with Berkeley Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer who became co-director of the Manhattan Project:

The first episode is below. Links to the full series are at an earlier blog post at:
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/08/repeat-uc-berkeley-history.html

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