Los Alamos
Los Alamos Town in New Mexico, USA, site of a large scientific laboratory. During World War II, the laboratory was one of the centres for the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb. After the war, the laboratory developed the hydrogen bomb. Pop. (2000) 11,909.
Los Alamos
Los Alamos a town in northern New Mexico, which has been a centre for nuclear research since the 1940s, when it was the site of the development of the first atomic and hydrogen bombs.
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