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Los Alamos National Laboratory

1943-01-01year known, day not recorded

The Department of Energy nuclear-weapons laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project, 1943). A recurring node in this network: home to Oppenheimer and Teller, directed by Donald Kerr (1979-85), overseen by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, near Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, and the seed of the Santa Fe Institute. The physical heart of America's weapons-physics establishment.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread. It is on this map through the nuclear-weapons laboratories; the 1949 aerial-phenomena conference is its own node. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

4 of 13 connections resolve to a document you can open.

1 note on how this record was made

Documents3 behind these connections1 more that names it

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

named as the issuing body
Los Alamos National Laboratory, operated by Triad National Security, LLC for the National…

13 connections

ColourContractorsIncidentsScientistsGovernmentHearings & panelsOrganizations
  • named it under oath as one of three Department of Energy sites he says appear to be under surveillance
    Caveat READ THIS BESIDE MICHAEL GOLD ON THE SAME PANEL, printed page 31 of the same hearing: "because we have got more cameras, more monitoring of national security, we do not know how extensive UAP activity may be over civilian areas." That is sensor bias, and it is the strongest honest objection to reading this clustering as a fact about where UAP are rather than a fact about where the sensors are. It was raised in the same room, on the same day, by a sworn witness, and it travels with this claim.
  • named it as a sensitive site under apparent surveillance
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 47  ·  PDF p. 51 checked against the page
  • the Atomic Energy Commission security office at Los Alamos was on the distribution list for the Air Force summary
    General Correspondence of Sandia
    printed p. 3  ·  PDF p. 22 checked against the page
  • saw the Los Alamos cluster on ATIC's map and explained it as an artifact of how closely the place is guarded
  • Donald Kerr names a source we do not hold
    4th Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1979-85); worked there from 1966
    AFIO obituary (2025); Senate confirmation records
  • Edward Teller names a source we do not hold
    developed the hydrogen bomb there; a founding figure of the lab
    Wikipedia: Edward Teller
  • Robert Oppenheimer names a source we do not hold
    wartime director who led the Manhattan Project there
    Wikipedia: Robert Oppenheimer
  • Bill Richardson names a source we do not hold
    as Energy Secretary oversaw the DOE weapons labs including Los Alamos
    Wikipedia: Bill Richardson
  • Jeffrey Epstein names a source we do not hold
    his Zorro Ranch sat near Los Alamos; per Bannon recordings he expressed interest in retired Los Alamos physicists (unverified inference)
    analyst note; press reporting
  • Stanislaw Ulam names a source we do not hold
    the Los Alamos mathematician behind the Teller-Ulam design and Monte Carlo method
    Wikipedia: Stanislaw Ulam
  • John von Neumann names a source we do not hold
    Manhattan Project scientist there
    Wikipedia: John von Neumann
  • Battelle Memorial Institute names a source we do not hold
    co-manages it via Triad National Security LLC
    Battelle.org, National Lab Management
  • Bechtel Corporation names a source we do not hold
    co-managed it (2006-2018) via Los Alamos National Security LLC
    Bechtel.com; Wikipedia: Los Alamos National Security

Notes on this record

The category

Federally Funded Research and Development Center. is an FFRDC; administrator Triad National Security LLC, sponsor Department of Energy Source: NSF/NCSES Master Government List of FFRDCs, February 2026 list, read 2026-08-21 by web fetch (third provenance grade - not rendered and read by eye).