Los Alamos usually refers to the United States national laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico which was founded during the World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb (the Manhattan Project), was one of the two laboratories developing the USA's nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and is today as major laboratory for both classified and unclassified scientific research:
It is also the name of a number of geographical locations in the USA:
Los Alamos, California
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos County, New Mexico
At least one ship also carried the name:
Los Alamos (AFDB-7) was a large floating dry dock.
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LosAlamos is located approximately fifty miles north of Santa Barbara beside Highway 101.
It was founded in 1876 by John Bell and James Shaw, both formerly of San Francisco, who had purchased adjoining 14,000 acre ranches from the area's original Mexican land grants.
The LosAlamos Valley flourishes due to the high water table and area climate as an
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