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Published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2023
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. Mercedes Martinez (Lead Graphic Designer) and Gabr (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 66 pages, including covers. Decorative covers. Illustrations (many in color). Slight cover wear. This is the Annual for 2023 from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center. The contents include Print to Digital, Early Lab Love Stories, Witness from the Sky, Why Didn't Oppenheimer Ever Win a Nobel Prize? Charlotte Serber, Remembering WWII's Navajo Code Talkers, Oppenheimer Biographer Tours Lab, Los Alamos and the British Mission, Remembering J. Arthur Freed, Lab Groups Partner to Change Street Signs, A Tale of Two Bomb Designs, How Nuclear Weapons Tests Were Names, Those Who Believed in Oppenheimer, Richard P. Feynman, General Leslie R. Groves, Voyage of Discoveries, and 30th Anniversary of Divider. Alan Carr, the Los Alamos National Laboratory historian, was a contributor to this issue. The mission of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center is to solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence. We achieve maximum impact on strategic national security priorities by integrating research and development solutions with operational excellence and community engagement. As a federally funded research and development center, Los Alamos National Laboratory aligns our strategic plan with priorities set by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA) and key national strategy guidance documents. We execute work across all of DOE's missions: national security, science, energy, and environmental management. Scientific and engineering capabilities developed through LANL's stockpile research are part of what makes DOE and NNSA a science, technology, and engineering powerhouse for the nation.
Published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2020
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. Mercedes Martinez (Graphic Designer) and Don Monto (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 40 pages, including covers. Decorative covers. Illustrations (many in color). This is the Annual for 2020 from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center. The contents include Classified Library [The Lab's National Security Research Center is a dynamic facility accessed by the nation's top scientists and engineers as they solve global challenges], The Road to Trinity One of history's greatest scientific breakthroughs was achieved in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, helping to end World War II just weeks later], Voyage of Discoveries [Handwritten notebooks from scientific geniuses. Blueprints of the world's first atomic weapons. Fascinating finds fill the National Security Research Center.], The story of Oscar Seborer, Atomic Spy [A fourth World War II-era spy at Los Alamos was recently confirmed by historians], State-of-the-art Digitizing Facilities [Expert staff and high-tech equipment in six labs at the National Security Research Center preserve materials dating back to the beginning of the nuclear enterprise], and Dorothy McKibbin: The Gatekeeper [She was hired as the secretary to the Lab's first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, but Dorothy McKibbin was much more]. Alan Carr, the Los Alamos National Laboratory historian, was a contributor to this issue. The mission of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center is to solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence. We achieve maximum impact on strategic national security priorities by integrating research and development solutions with operational excellence and community engagement. As a federally funded research and development center, Los Alamos National Laboratory aligns our strategic plan with priorities set by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA) and key national strategy guidance documents. We execute work across all of DOE's missions: national security, science, energy, and environmental management. Scientific and engineering capabilities developed through LANL's stockpile research are part of what makes DOE and NNSA a science, technology, and engineering powerhouse for the nation.
Published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2022
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. Mercedes Martinez (Lead Graphic Designer) and Gabr (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 56 pages, including covers. Decorative covers. Illustrations (many in color). This is the Annual for 2022 from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center. The contents include College-bound cowboys [Before the Lab, Los Alamos was home to an elite, rugged boarding school]; The Betty Perkins Reports [Nuclear weapons information is vital to today's national security mission]; The Metropolis Collection [Newly donated materials reinforce a prominent scientist's legacy]; The Gadget and a Gadget [How the world's first atomic bomb--a plutonium, implosion device--got its name.]; Edith Warner's Wartime Business [ Her restaurant offered scientists a morale boost--and chocolate cake]; atomic Pop Culture [The Lab's scientific achievement inspired a genre of comic books, music, and movies]; Plutonium and Poetry [J. Robert Oppenheimer's work as Los Alamos was define by physics and inspired by literature]; and Voyage of Discoveries [Fascinating finds are down every aisle and around every corner of the Lab's classified library]. Alan Carr, the Los Alamos National Laboratory historian, was a contributor to this issue. The mission of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center is to solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence. We achieve maximum impact on strategic national security priorities by integrating research and development solutions with operational excellence and community engagement. As a federally funded research and development center, Los Alamos National Laboratory aligns our strategic plan with priorities set by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA) and key national strategy guidance documents. We execute work across all of DOE's missions: national security, science, energy, and environmental management. Scientific and engineering capabilities developed through LANL's stockpile research are part of what makes DOE and NNSA a science, technology, and engineering powerhouse for the nation.
Published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2021
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. Mercedes Martinez (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 40 pages, including covers. Decorative covers. Illustrations (many in color). This is the Annual for 2021 from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center. The contents include Restored images, preserved legacy [First-of-its-king project for the NSRC saves more than 1400 photos]; Foundation of stockpile confidence [Letting the world know the United States has a secure, safe, and effective stockpile starts with the NSRC], Work of (Top Secret) Art [During World War II, Miriam White Campbell drew the designs for the atomic bomb known as Little Boy]; Native American heritage [Area's earliest inhabitants become valuable part of Lab workforce]; Voyage of discoveries [Fascinating finds are down every aisle and around every corner of the Lab's classified library], and Norris Bradbury [The second director was known as both the savior of Los Alamos and the architect of the Lab today]. Alan Carr, the Los Alamos National Laboratory historian, was a contributor to this issue. The mission of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center is to solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence. We achieve maximum impact on strategic national security priorities by integrating research and development solutions with operational excellence and community engagement. As a federally funded research and development center, Los Alamos National Laboratory aligns our strategic plan with priorities set by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE NNSA) and key national strategy guidance documents. We execute work across all of DOE's missions: national security, science, energy, and environmental management. Scientific and engineering capabilities developed through LANL's stockpile research are part of what makes DOE and NNSA a science, technology, and engineering powerhouse for the nation.