The lab the nation turned to . . .

An hour-and-a-half after the first plane hit, Paul Robinson recalls, NNSA Administrator Gen. John Gordon called to ask for Sandia's help, saying, "'Get some guys back here to help me handle all the requests we're getting, and the communications with all the other labs and sites.'" Click the image above to launch a PDF file version of this story detailing Sandia National Laboratories' response to the nation's call in the first frantic days after 9/11.