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Bradbury Science Museum

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You can't actually visit the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was conceived, but the Bradbury Science Museum has compelling displays on the bomb's development and the political context of the time, along with modern research in medical and computer sciences. Short films introduce the history of the Manhattan Project, the Lab's current research and its task of maintaining the nuclear stockpile.


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