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Buildings around Ashley Pond at the Los Alamos Project Y Site in 1942
The Los Alamos Ranch School buildings in 1942, which became part of the Los Alamos Project Y site.

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  • In 1943, hundreds of people converged on a desert in New Mexico to work on the Manhattan Project. 
  • Building the atomic bomb required a furious working pace and the utmost secrecy. 
  • It also forever changed the landscape of Los Alamos and the lives of its residents. 

Though Los Alamos was just one of many sites dedicated to the Manhattan Project, it was the most remote, and the most secret.

Located in the desert, it has mountain views and vivid sunsets. It's where scientists prepared the bomb for the Trinity Test. 

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Science, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic bombs
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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project