The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory - An Isolated Nuclear Research Establishment

Technical Report · Fri Sep 23 04:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1328000· OSTI ID:1328000

Bradbury, Norris E. ^[1]; Meade, Roger Allen ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Early in his twenty-five year career as the Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Norris Bradbury wrote at length about the atomic bomb and the many implications the bomb might have on the world. His themes were both technical and philosophical. In 1963, after nearly twenty years of leading the nation’s first nuclear weapons laboratory, Bradbury took the opportunity to broaden his writing. In a paper delivered to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s symposium on the “Criteria in the Selection of Sites for the Construction of Reactors and Nuclear Research Centers,” Bradbury took the opportunity to talk about the business of nuclear research and the human component of operating a scientific laboratory. This report is the transcript of his talk.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1328000
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--16-27298
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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