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Steeves, Brye Ann

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DOE OSTI2023

This St. Patrick’s Day, take a look at “lucky” Lab artifacts from the Manhattan Project

What luck! Tucked inside J. Robert Oppenheimer’s book Bhagavad-Gita is a four-leaf clover. The famed physicist and first Lab director regularly quoted the Hindu scripture, most notably upon witnessing the Trinity test, which was the successful detonation of the first-ever Los Alamos created atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was said to have recalled the line, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” (The quote, though, has been widely misinterpreted.) The clover is taped to what appears to be a calling card from his spouse Kitty and was found inside his copy of the Bhagavad Gita, which was donated to the Lab’s Bradbury Science Museum by private donors Ben and Sara Beck Svetitsky in early 2020. Kitty Oppenheimer was educated as a botanist and biologist, and accompanied her husband to Los Alamos, along with their two children. The family was here in 1943 through the end of World War II in 1945. The book, with the card found inside, makes up one of two of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s personal effects within the Lab’s collections.

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DOE OSTI2023

Index of Classified Reports Collection now available Vital resource for Weapons researchers, today’s mission work

The collection is made up of classified technical reports containing weapons data dating back to the start of the nuclear security enterprise. The information is compiled into reports, slides, handbooks and literature. It originated from Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia Labs, as well as from the Department of Defense and likely every other organization involved in nuclear testing, including contractors and those that are now defunct.

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DOE OSTI2022

Holiday Cooking: Make something from this historic Los Alamos cookbook and tell us about it!

Third Lab Director Harold Agnew’s barbecue sauce. Applesauce meatballs from the wife of Nobel laureate Frederick Reines. Two different recipes for chopped liver. And dozens more for soups, salads, meats, breads, desserts, drinks – plus a big taste of the past. What’s Cooking was published in Los Alamos in 1955 and recently discovered in a used bookstore in Santa Fe by Lab physicist Roseanne Cheng. “It was buried and on a forgotten shelf,” Cheng said. “I started flipping through it and I couldn’t believe all the (recognizable) names inside.” The wives of Lab staff, including prominent scientists, and Los Alamos community members had submitted recipes to the Los Alamos Chapter of Hadassah, which compiled them and printed the book.

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DOE OSTI2022

Former Director Sig Hecker to present classified colloquium on the end of nuclear testing

Hecker is a professor emeritus (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. He served as the Lab’s fifth director from 1986 to 1997 and is a Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal recipient. He is an internationally recognized expert in plutonium science, global threat reduction and nuclear security with wide research interests covering nuclear weapons policy, nuclear security, and the safe and secure expansion of nuclear energy.

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DOE OSTI2022

Last chance! Divider anniversary display in NSSB lobby ends Friday

The display, located in the NSSB lobby, includes photos, maps, documents, clothing and a test rack replica dating back to 1992.These items are unclassified, but they are either housed in an area where browsing is regulated or are personal items that belong to retired weapons scientists, said Laura McGuiness, an archivist with the National Security Research Center (NSRC), who oversaw the display in coordination staff from the Communications and External Affairs division.

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DOE OSTI2022

The Vault

This new edition of The Vault is another example of our staff’s relentless drive to produce high-quality products. This is the third year we developed this annual magazine. Each volume of The Vault is a labor of love. We do it because we see this as part of our job as stewards of the Lab’s history — and because failure in this critical role is not an option.

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DOE OSTI2022

Senior Historian Alan Carr presents Lab-wide talk on testing-Nation’s last weapons test marks 30th anniversary

Join Senior Historian Alan Carr as he presents “Introduction to Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945 to 1992” in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the nation’s last full-scale nuclear test. Special guest retired Los Alamos test director Ron Cosimi will offer the opening remarks. Attendees will receive an original commemorative poster and can browse a new, temporary Divider test display.

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DOE OSTI2022

Print or order a LANSCE 50th anniversary poster [Poster]

To mark the anniversary of LANSCE and its five decades of cutting-edge science, the National Security Research Center’s graphic designer Gabriella Smith (from CEA-CAS) illustrated a commemorative poster now available for display. The LANSCE (the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center) facility houses one of the nation’s most powerful linear accelerators, which are used to improve safety and security as well as advance technology in stockpile sustainment, modern materials and manufacturing, and threat mitigation, among other areas. Now-deceased Lab scientist Louis Rosen, who is featured prominently on the poster, first proposed creating this major experimental science facility, said NSRC Archivist-Historian Madeline Whitacre (WRS-NSRCMS)

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DOE OSTI2022

Looking back at 50 years of cutting-edge capabilities: LANSCE ‘underpins Los Alamos as a world-class scientific institution’

What started with an idea and a memo has since grown into a one-of-a-kind, world-renowned facility that contributes to the nation’s advancement of science and technology. First known as LAMPF (Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility) until the 1990s when it became LANSCE (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center), the facility is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first full-capacity proton beam on June 9, 1972. Since then, LANSCE has contributed to a range of national security goals, such as supporting the Lab’s stockpile stewardship program, helping to advance the science of medical radioisotopes, improving the understanding of hydrodynamics, and more. “LANSCE has served the nation through its near-unique capabilities,” said Alan Carr, Senior Historian at the National Security Research Center, which houses the facility’s evolution through decades of documents, photos and other materials. “Since 1972, LANSCE has been the Lab’s major experimental science facility and underpins Los Alamos as a world-class scientific institution. This was true 50 years ago and is still true today.” In commemoration of this anniversary, we’re taking a look back at LANSCE’s historic five decades, including its first director, earliest milestones and important contributions to national security.

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Lab Groups partner to change street sign; New spelling honors culture, revisits weapons legacy

This is a LANL Today article. It offers a brief historical overview of the Lab’s presence on Enewetak Atoll for weapons testing purposes. It explains the Lab’s efforts to change the spelling of Eniwetok Drive to Enewetak Drive to reflect the preferred spelling of residents of Enewetak Atoll. The purpose is historical and cultural education.

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DOE OSTI2022

A Mother’s Day Tribute. Luckily for moms, what’s old is new again

A mother’s love for her child is expressed in so many ways. And strongly reinforced when they’re wearing matching clothes. Today’s mother-daughter twinning trend has actually been part of a global fashion cycle that began in Europe more than a hundred years ago and included Los Alamos by the time the Lab opened in 1943.

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DOE OSTI2022

Oppenheimer biographer tours Lab while movie is filmed locally

While a Hollywood movie crew filmed the Oppenheimer movie in Los Alamos these past few weeks, a special guest stopped by the Lab in between takes and chats with big-name actors. Director Thom Mason invited Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, to LANL while Bird was in town. The film’s director, Christopher Nolan, wrote the screenplay based on Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, published in 2005. Oppenheimer was a physicist and the Lab’s first director of its wartime mission to secretly create the atomic bombs and help end World War II.

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A publication proposal to the University of California

The purpose of this book is to profile, chapter by chapter, each of the 18 Nobel laureates who contributed to the laboratory’s wartime efforts. Through narrative, nonfiction profiles with fascinating historical photos and documents, readers will learn who these scientists were, what they accomplished, and why it mattered. The goal of this book is to educate readers by creating a published chronicle of this important history based on documents and photographs that are a part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Research Center. These 18 scientists have two things in common: their wartime work at Los Alamos and their Nobel Prizes. For the first time ever, both are presented as one story.

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A publication proposal to Texas A&M Press

The purpose of this book is to profile, chapter by chapter, each of the 18 Nobel laureates who contributed to the laboratory’s wartime efforts. Through narrative, nonfiction profiles with fascinating historical photos and documents, readers will learn who these scientists were, what they accomplished, and why it mattered. The goal of this book is to educate readers by creating a published chronicle of this important history based on documents and photographs that are a part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Research Center. These 18 scientists have two things in common: their wartime work at Los Alamos and their Nobel Prizes. For the first time ever, both are presented as one story.

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The ‘Charlotte Serber Center’ named, dedicated Classified library honors first librarian, only female wartime Group leader

As our Lab was being created nearly 80 years, J. Robert Oppenheimer handpicked Charlotte Serber for what he considered one of the most critical positions: to oversee the wartime technical library. Today, serving as the director of the National Security Research Center (NSRC), I can attest to both the importance of Oppie’s pick and affirm that he made the right choice. The NSRC is the Lab’s classified library and we’ve evolved from that inaugural wartime technical library. Thanks to Serber, those materials remain a vital part of our collections today.

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