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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S.
government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New
Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and
young soldiers racing to develop the world’s first atomic bomb. Dirt roads
were hastily built and temporary housing came in the form of huts and
tents as the outpost’s population ballooned.

The community is facing growing pains again, 80 years later, as Los Alamos
National Laboratory takes part in the nation’s most ambitious nuclear
weapons effort since World War II. The mission calls for modernizing the
arsenal with droves of new workers producing plutonium cores — key
components for nuclear weapons.

Some 3,300 workers have been hired in the last two years, with the
workforce now topping more than 17,270. Close to half of them commute to
work from elsewhere in northern New Mexico and from as far away as
Albuquerque, helping to nearly double Los Alamos’ population during the
work week.

While advancements in technology have changed the way work is done at Los
Alamos, some things remain the same for this company town. The secrecy and
unwavering sense of duty that were woven into the community’s fabric
during the 1940s remain.

James Owen, the associate lab director for weapons engineering, has spent
more than 25 years working in the nuclear weapons program.

“What we do is meaningful. This isn’t a job, it’s a vocation and there’s a
sense of contribution that comes with that,” Owen said in an interview
with The Associated Press following a rare tour of the facility where
workers are preparing to piece together plutonium cores by hand. “The
downside is we can’t tell people about all the cool things we do here.”

While the priority at Los Alamos is maintaining the nuclear stockpile, the
lab also conducts a range of national security work and research in
diverse fields of space exploration, supercomputing, renewable energy and
efforts to limit global threats from disease and cyberattacks.

The welcome sign on the way into town reads: “Where discoveries are made.”

The headline grabber, though, is the production of plutonium cores.

Lab managers and employees defend the massive undertaking as necessary in
the face of global political instability. With most people in Los Alamos
connected to the lab, opposition is rare.

But watchdog groups and non-proliferation advocates question the need for
new weapons and the growing price tag.

“For some time Los Alamosans have seemed numbed out, very involved in
superficial activities but there is a very big hole in the middle where
thoughtful discourse might live,” Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos
Study Group, a nonprofit that has been challenging the lab over safety,
security and budget concerns, said in an email.

Town officials are grappling with the effects of expansion at the lab,
much like the military generals who scrambled to erect the secret city on
the hill in 1943.

The labor market is stressed, housing is in short supply and traffic is
growing. There are few options for expansion in a town bordered by the
national forest, a national park and Native American land, leaving county
officials to reconsider zoning rules to allow developers to be more
creative with infill projects.

Still, officials acknowledge it will take time for those changes to catch
up with demand and for prices to normalize in what is already one of the
most affluent counties in the U.S. With the lab being the largest
employer, Los Alamos also boasts the highest per-capita levels of
educational attainment with many residents holding master’s degrees and
Ph.Ds.

Owen is originally from Peñasco, a Hispanic village in neighboring Taos
County. His fascination with science was sparked by a high school field
trip where he learned about explosions and implosions. It wasn’t long
before he landed a summer job at the lab and went on to earn engineering
degrees that helped him move up through the ranks.

Los Alamos taps into regional schools as a generational pipeline.
Grandfathers work as machinists. Mothers solder key components. And
daughters become experts at tracking radiation.

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biggest-mission-manhattan-project-rcna117097