Sandia National Laboratories

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Building 800 , completed in 1949, photo from 1951

The entrance in the late 1940s

The Sandia National Laboratories ( SNL ) is a research and development facility founded in 1948, the US Department of Energy with locations in Albuquerque , New Mexico , and Livermore , California .

The main task is to develop, manufacture and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons . In addition, the SNL developed suborbital research missiles such as the Strypi and STARS , which are used to test ballistic weapons and missile defense systems.

In the SNL are

• the supercomputers ASCI Red and Red Storm ,
• the Z machine , the largest X-ray source in the world.

SNL operates the Kauai Test Facility rocket launch site on the island of Kaua'i ( Hawaii island chain ).

According to its own information, more than 12,000 people worked at the institute in 2017.

Web links

Commons : Sandia National Laboratories  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.sandia.gov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.sandia.gov History. Accessed October 8, 2018.
2. ↑ www.sandia.gov Facts & Figures. Accessed October 8, 2018.

Coordinates: 35 ° 3 '2.4 "  N , 106 ° 32' 35.3"  W.