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The Union of Concerned Scientists produced a 15-second ad to air before "Oppenheimer" screenings across New Mexico.

On July 21, Oppenheimer, a new major motion picture chronicling the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, will open in theaters across the country. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, director of Dunkirk, Interstellar and The Dark Knight trilogy, the film wa

It carries a legacy of illness, death and environmental racism for countless others. History tells of a long practice of hiring local Hispano and Pueblo communities to staff some of the most dangerous positions. History tells of a long practice of hiring local Hispano and Pueblo communities to staff some of the most dangerous positions,…

Every day, thousands of people from all parts of El Norte make the vertiginous drive up to Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s a trek that generations of New Mexicans have

Four years ago, LANL began laying the groundwork for this expansion by searching out and shaping a highly trained labor pool.

Los Alamos National Laboratory was to produce 30 plutonium pits per year, the trigger of nuclear bombs, in an effort to modernize the U.S. arsenal.

The escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation.