Alam um my question is I've noticed the Curious absence of uh nuclear power from
Alamos that happened even after those events actually occurred that there is so much history and texture to explore.
Los Alamos had some heavy calculations they wanted done.
And Alameda has a totally different feel from the one in Oakland, which has a totally different feel from the one on Clement Street.
El alamine if Roman had broken through then that could have been the end of the
he and air Alam the Egyptian reporter who has also traveled with me periodically wanted to make umra before
Back at Los Alamos, the remaining scientists grappled with much harder problems than Solitaire, like figuring out how neutrons behave inside a nuclear core.
They were in Alameda in a 1950s-era jet engine test facility that was decrepit.
The guy from Alameda suckered us into buying that restaurant.
the history of Los Alamos that went on with the nuclear weapons and all that interesting history that I really didn't know much about.
We're up in Alameda, California on the former Naval Air Station.
Then I went to Alameda High School.
Not in Los Alamos.
and Los Alamos remained the center for weapons development for decades afterward.
I went to Los Alamos to look at the synthetic brain that DARPA is creating out there.
in the Oakland Alameda juvie.
I went Alamo Drafthouse in 2003 in Austin.
highways in Alameda County.
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I went to Los Alamos to try to understand the origins of the bomb.
Thatís Nick Metropolisís Los Alamos badge, now heís playing first game of computer chess against the MANIAC at Los Alamos.
Like there was an Alamo Drafthouse that we shepherded that was this.
There was an Alamo Drafthouse that we didn't have any involvement with, this.
He moved down to Alamo, we got him a job as a bartender.
County of Alameda, Hans Reiser did, and with malice, murder Nina Reiser."
scientist at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico working on both physics as well as high performance computing and
They were basically making a missile in Alameda, this small town in Northern California, right next to a residential neighborhood.
And I got a tour through Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is crazy.
And jurisdictions like San Francisco and Alameda County are moving in the direction of eliminating those.
in Santa Clara County or Alameda County because of the cost of housing or in the vicinity of a school district, it's very difficult under current Supreme Court precedent
And it was more complicated than Los Alamos.
Phil of Philz Coffee immigrated to Alameda with his family at a very young age.
If you're there in Alameda and working on something, you can't tell me or you'd have to kill me.
And in writing about women at Los Alamos, and the experience of female physicists, and the experience of brilliant women who were wives, who were excluded from the secret--
Like I assume everybody who works for Alamo is as passionate as you are about the things that they do for it.
And I talk up the Alamo Drafthouse.
A couple of years ago in Alameda County here, a mother called the fire department
What the fire chief in Alameda County said, , I can't go in the ocean.
This is the Saint George distillery in Alameda, and obviously a little bit more complicated equipment to make vodka.
but that's the origin of the Alamo.
He has to be programming at the Alamo Drafthouse.
And he came to the Alamo, similar way.
image processing at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico.
research institutions military bases places like Los Alamos obviously uh
There was panic at Los Alamos.
I know of this physicist who's up at Los Alamos who was talking about biological scaling relationships." And so we met Geoffrey and it was like immediately,
talks with Egypt's foreign minister in the Mediterranean city of Alamain. Shik Muhammad bin Al Abdul Raman Alani said
For example, Los Alamos National Labs is right on the river.
She had a boss between those two things at Los Alamos National Laboratory who would not let her work start working for him until she