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War Department press release about Los Alamos, New Mexico

  • 1945

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Press release issues by the United States War Department providing background information on Los Alamos, New Mexico, the site for the Los Alamos Laboratory. The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is best known as the top-secret site where the development of the atomic bomb and the design of nuclear weapons took place during World War II under the Manhattan Project.

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  • 3 pages
  • 22 cm W x 28 cm H
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Series II. Professional Files
  • Sub-series 2. Subject Files
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  • Box 5, Folder 11

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United States. War Department. “War Department Press Release about Los Alamos, New Mexico,” 1945. Papers of Richard W. Dodson, Box 5, Folder 11. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/p927zze.

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