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Town in New Mexico, USA, which has had a
centre for atomic and space research since
1942. In World War II the first atom (nuclear
fission) bomb was designed there (under
Robert Oppenheimer), based on data from other
research stations; the hydrogen bomb was also
developed there. The town has a population of
12,000.