Bradbury Museum at Los Alamos, New Mexico; a Museum to the development, cost, benefits, etc. of the atomic bomb – Favorites of the Southwest 2026 Ride
Norris E. Bradbury, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory form 1945 to 1970. In charge of the final assembly of “the Gadget”, detonated for the Trinity Test (first detonation of a nuclear weapon).A replica of “the Gadget” which allowed the first nuclear test and the subsequent development of the two nuclear bombs used to end WWII.ReReplica of the “Little Boy” (uranium nuclear bomb) dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.Replica of “Fat Boy,” the plutonium atomic bomb (named as a reference to Winston Churchill) dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.General Leslie R. Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer, both in charge of the Manhattan Project that served as the predecessor to the development of the atomic bomb.
