Graduation day at the Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys - Courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory
November 1942
The Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys and surrounding land is purchased to house the secret labs that would build the bomb. Construction begins immediately on labs and housing for about 100 scientists and their families. By wars end, over 6000 people would be at Los Alamos.

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