Origins of a New Site: The Early History of Sandia
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Description: Origins of a New Site The Early History of Sandia California Rebecca Ullrich April 15 2015 SAND20152863PE Todays Scope The decisions leading up to the creation of this site and the early years of its development Origins of Sandia
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Origins of a New Site: The Early History of Sandia California Rebecca Ullrich April 15, 2015 SAND2015-2863PE Today’s Scope The decisions leading up to the creation of this site and the early years of its development Origins of Sandia Nuclear Weapons Complex in the early 1950s Creation of UCRL Livermore (LLNL) Need for ordnance engineering support for LLNL AEC decision: Sandia to support LLNL designs Establishing the new Sandia site (construction, personnel, and direction) Growth Early programs 2 Origins of Sandia 3 J. Robert Oppenheimer Jerrold R. Zacharias The New Mexico Site Early Growth: SSTB Glenn Fowler 1949: Transition in Sandia Lab Status First Sandia Corporation President, George Landry Nuclear Weapons Complex, MED,1949, 1951, 1953 7 Los Alamos Oak Ridge Y-12 Hanford Oak Ridge K-25 Sandia Kansas City Burlington Mound Rock Island Inyokern Picatinny Livermore Paducah Portsmouth Albuquerque Pantex NTS Rocky Flats Savannah River Fernald Results: Product University of California Rad Lab: A Second Site Naval Air Station Livermore, 1943 E. O. Lawrence, Edward Teller, Herb York Sandia Support for UCRL, Livermore 10 York’s draft plan for UCRL Livermore Sandia at Operation Upshot-Knothole NAS WAVEs barracks used as offices Announcing a New Sandia Site 11 Teller, McRae, and Howard Location 12 Facilities Plan 13 Expansion and Reorganization 14 Howard, Poole, Molnar, and Campbell, 1958 Capabilities 15 Early Work 16 W48 155mm cannon W54 Davy Crockett Polaris 17 W47 Polaris SLBM Accomplishments 18 Livermore, California 19 Community 20 Thank you 21
