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Joint Nuclear Explosive Training Facility JNETF Los Alamos National Lab Challenge Coin
Joint Nuclear Explosive Training Facility JNETF Los Alamos National Lab Challenge Coin
Joint Nuclear Explosive Training Facility JNETF Los Alamos National Lab Challenge Coin

Joint Nuclear Explosive Training Facility JNETF Los Alamos National Lab Challenge Coin

Joint Nuclear Explosives Training Facility

JNETF

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Challenge Coin

Condition : Used, and in nice shape.  Please see pictures.

This coin is 1 1/2 inches in diameter with a serrated edge.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the southwestern United States.

 Los Alamos was selected as the top secret location for bomb design in late 1942, and officially commissioned the next year. At the time it was known as Project Y, one of a series of laboratories located across the United States given letter names to maintain their secrecy. Los Alamos was the centre for design and overall coordination, while the other labs, today known as Oak Ridge and Argonne, concentrated on the production of uranium and plutonium bomb fuels. Los Alamos was the heart of the project, collecting together some of the world's most famous scientists, among them numerous Nobel Prize winners. The site was known variously as Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory through this period.

The lab's existence was announced to the world in the post-WWII era, when it became known universally as Los Alamos. In 1952, the Department of Energy formed a second design lab under the direction of the University of California, Berkeley, becoming the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Since that date the two labs have competed on a wide variety of bomb designs. With the ending of the Cold War, both labs turned their focus increasingly to civilian missions. Today, Los Alamos is one of the largest science and technology institutions in the world. It conducts multidisciplinary research in fields such as national security, space exploration, nuclear fusion, renewable energy,[5] medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing. The town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, directly north of the lab, grew extensively through this period.

After several reorganizations, the LANL is currently managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security (LANS), located in the town of Los Alamos.