U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Makes First Visit To Los Alamos National Laboratory … Calls It America’s ‘National Security Brain Trust’
DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick. Courtesy/LANL
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- Site tour covered Weapons, AI, Supercomputing and more
DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick.
During his inaugural visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory on Feb. 24, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told staff and leadership his administration believes Los Alamos is the nation’s Read More
Sonic Talk On Nuclearism And Atomic History At New Mexico History Museum Wednesday March 12 In Santa Fe
Sean J. Patrick Carney
NMHM News:
The community is invited to join the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) for a special presentation by writer and visual artist Sean J. Patrick Carney based on his podcast, Time Zero, which looks at nuclear history and the cultural architecture of postwar America.
What: From the first nuclear detonation in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin in 1945, through decades of mutually assured destruction, to science-fiction-like visions of atomic energy powering advanced artificial intelligence platforms, to radioactive half-lives numbering tens of thousands of years, Read More
LANL: Have You Seen These Manhattan Project Artifacts?
Left: Original Manhattan Project-era safe from 1946; Right: Safe from TA-53 retrieved by Site Cleanup Program workers in 2022. Courtesy/LANL
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Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking for a few objects that may be lying around in family heirloom collections.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park is on the hunt for specific Manhattan Project-era artifacts that community members may have in their possession. These items will allow the park team and Bradbury Science Museum to build out specific exhibits so visitors can better understand the secret work that went into creating Read More
DOE Secretary Chris Wright Describes AI As ‘The Next Manhattan Project’ During Visit To Los Alamos
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks to members of the press early Monday evening outside the Oppenheimer House on Bathtub Row in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
- The major race is in AI and it is critical that the U.S. comes out ahead. –DOE Secretary Chris Wright
Standing outside the former residence of J. Robert Oppenheimer early Monday evening, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright paid homage to Los Alamos’ past while laying out the objective for the present.
Wright, who assumed the Read More
Robinson: DOGE’s Undisciplined Flunkies Know Nothing Of Government
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2025 New Mexico News Services
In the who-what-when that’s the architecture of news stories, it’s usually the who that’s most important and the how that’s least important. But in recent federal firings, I find the how equally compelling.
Consider the slash and burn of Elon Musk and his DOGE groupies at the National Nuclear Security Administration, an agency of the Department of Energy.
NPR pieced together an account from interviews with fired employees. They were shut out of their email accounts before learning they were fired. Some were not notified they were Read More
Laboratory Retiree Group First Tuesday Breakfast March 4
LRG News:
Lab retirees (and potential retirees) are invited to drop in at the Laboratory Retiree Group (LRG) monthly breakfast social, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 4 at Muy Salsas at 1315 Trinity Drive.
Come hang out and join the conversation with other Lab retirees. LRG will pay for coffee and tea. Individuals will pay for their breakfast and other drinks.
All laboratory retirees may join LRG. Email questions to sgirard@losalamos.com or call 505.672.3497.
More information can be found at https://lalrg.org. Read More
LANL Foundation Celebrates National Board Certification Of 12 Northern New Mexico Teachers
LANLF News:
ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation proudly announces that 12 teachers from Northern New Mexico, supported through its initiatives, have achieved National Board Certification—a prestigious and nationally respected credential in K-12 education.
This milestone highlights the teachers’ dedication and the certification’s role in improving teaching quality, strengthening school communities, and supporting career growth.
The LANL Foundation’s National Board Certification for Local Teachers Program currently supports 64 teachers across Northern New Mexico. The program Read More
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