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History Reports

  • Building a Nuclear Ordnance Engineering Lab (slides from presentation to NSF Short Course “The Birthplace and Early History of the Atomic Bomb”) (PPT/9 MB)
  • Contracting in the National Interest (PDF/2 MB)
  • Fact Sheet: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest (PDF/3 MB)
  • A History of Building 828, Sandia National Laboratories (PDF/4 MB)
  • Origins: The Early History of Sandia National Laboratories (PPT/8 MB)
  • Origins of a New Site: The Early History of Sandia California (PPT/13 MB)
  • Pulsed Power at Sandia National Laboratories: The First 40 Years (PDF/8 MB)
  • Sandia National Laboratories: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest (PDF/59 MB)
  • Sandia National Laboratories: A Product of Postwar Readiness: 1945-1950 (PDF/18 MB)
  • Sandia and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 1974-1999 (PDF/12 MB)
  • Tech Area II: A History (PDF/8 MB)
  • The Works of Willis Whitfield (from The Giants of the Nuclear Testing Era: A series of notebooks from the pioneers) (PDF/9 MB)
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