Photos placed in horizontal position with even amount of white space between photos and header Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL SAND NO XXXXP Building a Nuclear Ordnance Engineering Lab: A History of Sandia Rebecca Ullrich Corporate Historian SAND C
What’s in a Weapon?
Origins: Creating Z Division 3 J. Robert Oppenheimer Jerrold R. Zacharias
Origins: Choosing a Site
Origins: Building a Lab
JTF-1 Operation Crossroads 6
Operation Crossroads 21 kt Baker Shot; July 24, 1946
Building 800—Kruger Design
Early Assembly Facilities
Transition in Sandia Lab Status First Sandia Corporation President, George Landry
Main Sandia Tech Area: 1949
Los Alamos Sandia Oak Ridge Y-12 Rock Island HanfordBurlingtonKansas City Mound PicatinnyInyokern Oak Ridge K-25 The Nuclear Weapons Complex 1949
Los Alamos Sandia Oak Ridge Y-12 Rock Island HanfordBurlington Kansas City Mound PicatinnyInyokern Oak Ridge K-25 PantexNTS Savannah River FernaldRocky Flats The Nuclear Weapons Complex
Los Alamos Sandia Oak Ridge Y-12 Albuquerque HanfordBurlington Kansas City Mound Picatinny Inyokern (Salt Wells) Oak Ridge K-25 Pantex Nevada (NTS) Savannah River FernaldRocky Flats Livermore Paducah Portsmouth The Nuclear Weapons Complex
From: Linking Legacies: Connecting the Cold War Nuclear Weapons Production Processes to Their Environmental Consequences, DOE/EM-0319 (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, 1997), 122.
Pushing for Variety in Weapons Designs
Laydown Weapons
Fat Man
Result of Growth: Complex
1958 Employee Brochure
Reflecting Policy and Place (1958)
Result of Growth: Sandia
Result of Growth: Albuquerque 24
Populations 25 YearAlbuquerque Population Bernalillo County Population Sandia Workforce Base Workforce , ,44969, ,7401, ,815145,673>2,1002, ,800>5,6006, ,000205,5005,7255, , ,189262,199
Sandia Purchasing in New Mexico 26
Housing Permits, YearHousing Permit $ 1940>2.3 million million 1952>25 million 1954<37.4 million
Conclusions
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