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Small-Town America: V. Los Alamos, New Mexico
Stevens, Alden | August 3, 1946 issue

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On a 7,000-foot mesa between deep canyons honeycombed with prehistoric cliff dwellings, in a land of ancient ways and ancient people, is the most important small town in the U.S. Los Alamos, New Mexico, is the birthplace of a new world. At Los Alamos have gathered not only brains of this new world but its conscience-for only those who created it are able to comprehend it fully and understand their responsibility toward it. They have touched lives of every one on earth. In the autumn of 1942, Los Alamos was an exclusive ranch school. The next spring it was even more exclusive, for it was becoming the best-equipped nuclear-physics laboratory in the world and was scheduled to be the cradle of the atomic bomb.

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CITIES & towns; RANCHES; LABORATORIES; ATOMIC bomb; LOS Alamos (N.M.); NEW Mexico; UNITED States
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