Monday, July 1, 2019

NM Vignettes -- Los Alamos, a Drinking Town?

Bathtub Row Brewers might have you believe that Los Alamos is better known for craft brews than for the nuclear bomb that ended WWII, but don't fall for it. This is a town full of savvy people whose ancestors were brought here in the 1940s to work on "The Gadget."



These families could not tell relatives where they were going and, once they got to Los Alamos, they were essentially sequestered on the post. Supplies were secretly transported to them at night over the treacherous mountains. Parents whose babies were born there could list only a post office box as their children's city of birth.
Unfortunately, even though you must show ID to pass through the gates, this is just about all you get to see of the base itself. Luckily, we'd been told to stop at the free Bradbury Museum in town, and those displays and movies helped us understand the significance of the work done in this town.

Newly enlightened, we drove through the seemingly barren base, and into the lush Jemez Mountains where the original inhabitants of Los Alamos had found, nearly 75 years ago, a place to escape the rigors of their work.
 We were surprised to see one person took Mr. Trump's advice and is raking the forest to prevent devastating forest fires.
At the end of twenty miles of switchbacks, we got our reward. This meadow is the result of volcanic action over a million years ago. The caldera, Valles Caldera National Preserve, is swaying grasses stretching for miles and dotted with grazing elk and deer. If the Los Alamos scientists came here, they undoubtedly found the serenity they craved during those tumultuous war years.

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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is probably the most famous federal government laboratory. Synonymous with both clandestine and well-known paradigm-shifting research.

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