1. 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-AC04-94AL85000. SAND NO. 2011-XXXXP Origins of a New Site: The Early History of Sandia California Rebecca Ullrich April 15, 2015 SAND2015-2863PE

2. Today’s Scope The decisions leading up to the creation of this site and the early years of its development  Origins of Sandia  Nuclear Weapons Complex in the early 1950s  Creation of UCRL Livermore (LLNL)  Need for ordnance engineering support for LLNL  AEC decision: Sandia to support LLNL designs  Establishing the new Sandia site (construction, personnel, and direction)  Growth  Early programs 2

3. Origins of Sandia 3 J. Robert Oppenheimer Jerrold R. Zacharias

4. The New Mexico Site

5. Early Growth: SSTB Glenn Fowler

6. 1949: Transition in Sandia Lab Status First Sandia Corporation President, George Landry

7. 7 Los Alamos Oak Ridge Y-12Hanford K-25 Sandia Kansas City Burlington Mound Rock Island InyokernPicatinny Livermore Paducah PortsmouthAlbuquerque Pantex NTS Rocky Flats SavannahRiverFernald

8. Results: Product

9. University of California Rad Lab: A Second Site Naval Air Station Livermore, 1943 E. O. Lawrence, Edward Teller, Herb York

10. Sandia Support for UCRL, Livermore 10 York’s draft plan for UCRL Livermore Sandia at Operation Upshot-Knothole NAS WAVEs barracks used as offices

11. Announcing a New Sandia Site 11 Teller, McRae, and Howard

12. Location 12

13. Facilities Plan 13

14. Expansion and Reorganization 14 Howard, Poole, Molnar, and Campbell, 1958

15. Capabilities 15

16. Early Work 16 W48 155mm cannon W54 Davy Crockett

17. Polaris 17 W47 Polaris SLBM

18. Accomplishments 18

19. Livermore, California 19

20. Community 20

21. Thank you 21