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The massive blaze in New Mexico's Gila National Forest has burned more than 265 square miles, officials said Wednesday, becoming the largest wildfire in the state's history.
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Scientist recalls making of atomic bomb
first," Steinberg said.Steinberg, now 87 and one of the last surviving members of the project, moved on to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and was assigned to flow calculations, equipment inspection and eventually making plutonium.For the Read more »
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Forest wildfire becomes largest in NM history
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday. The erratic blaze grew overnight to more than 170,000 ac 5/30/12 from Miami Herald Read more »
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LANL Lab Could Get Funded
Funding for a multi-billion dollar new plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos, axed by the U.S. House of Representatives last month, may be restored, at least if members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services have their way. The committee completed its “m from Albuquerque Journal Read more »
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Journal Supports Pacheco, Others
The June 5 Democratic primary race for district attorney in the 1st Judicial District will decide who will be top prosecutor in the district’s three northern New Mexico counties for the next four years. As her opponent is the first to note, Pacheco has h from Albuquerque Journal Read more »
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Joe Newman: Follow the Defense Dollars -- If You Can
Remember last summer when everyone thought the sky was falling? The mounting budget deficit had Chicken Littles on both sides of the aisle crying doom and gloom. There was hemming and hawing and the obligatory appointment of a special-joint-bipartisan-re from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Scientists take a giant step forward in understanding plutonium
Georgios Koutroulakis and H. Yasuoka in the condensed-matter NMR lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory after having observed the magnetic resonance signal of Pu-239 for the first time. Plutonium is the most complex element in the periodic table, yet it i from PhysOrg.com Read more »
