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The 22 pages that link to Los Alamos National Laboratory, each with the reason it gives.

• Manhattan ProjectBroader topic: Scientists and engineers there turned fissile material into workable bomb designs.

• Monte Carlo methodRelated: The method was developed there amid wartime calculations of neutron behavior.

• Richard FeynmanBroader topic: Feynman led a theoretical division group there as a young Manhattan Project physicist.

• Cavendish LaboratoryCompared with: Its mission-driven national-laboratory model contrasts with Cambridge’s broad academic physics department.

• Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryCompared with: Unlike Berkeley Lab’s university-campus origins, Los Alamos began as a wartime weapons-design site.

• J. Robert OppenheimerBroader topic: Oppenheimer organized and directed the laboratory from 1943 through the end of the war.

• Fermi paradoxRelated: Fermi’s famous question is associated with a conversation among colleagues at Los Alamos.

• Trinity testRelated: Its scientists and engineers prepared the Trinity device and conducted the test.

• Stanisław UlamRelated: Ulam joined Los Alamos in 1943, where his mathematics entered wartime weapons research.

• Emilio SegrèRelated: Segrè’s wartime work there centered on measuring neutron-induced fission in plutonium.

• Ivy MikeRelated: Los Alamos designed the device and prepared it for the test.

• Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryCompared with: Livermore was founded as a second weapons-design laboratory alongside Los Alamos.

• Fat ManRelated: Los Alamos scientists developed Fat Man's implosion design.

• Little BoyRelated: The laboratory developed Little Boy's weapon design and prepared it for use.

• Leslie GrovesBroader topic: Groves established the laboratory and chose Oppenheimer to direct its scientific work.

• New MexicoBroader topic: Its scientific workforce has made the state a major center for national laboratories.

• Nuclear weapon designRelated: Its wartime teams integrated physics, materials, and engineering into complete weapons.

• Isidor RabiRelated: Rabi advised the Manhattan Project and influenced the laboratory’s scientific organization.

• DARPACompared with: A permanent laboratory performs research directly, whereas DARPA mainly funds temporary external programs.

• James RainwaterRelated: Rainwater’s wartime research brought him to Los Alamos as a young physicist.

• IBM 7030 StretchRelated: Los Alamos was a principal customer whose scientific workload helped motivate the Stretch project.

• History of New MexicoBroader topic: Its wartime founding transformed Los Alamos and left a lasting scientific and military presence.