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Located in a bucolic setting surrounded by tall pines, these humble wooden and asbestos-shingled buildings were where the world's first atomic device was assembled. Here scientists, engineers, and explosives experts worked around the clock on the "Gadget," the first plutonium-based atomic explosive.

Source: 
Atomic Heritage Foundation's "A Guide to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico" [1]
Parent Location: 
Los Alamos, NM [2]
Address: 
4200 W Jemez Rd #300
Los Alamos  New Mexico  87544
United States
Subjects: 
Innovations [3]
Military-Civilian Relations [4]
Scientific Discoveries [5]
Tags: 
Gadget [6]
Plutonium bomb [7]

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Links
[1] http://www.atomicheritagefoundation.com/product-p/70000.htm
[2] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/locations/los-alamos-nm
[3] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/subject/innovations
[4] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/subject/military-civilian-relations
[5] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/subject/scientific-discoveries
[6] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/tags/gadget
[7] https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/tags/plutonium-bomb