Los Alamos National Laboratory organized a tour of two Manhattan Project National Historical Park sites inside the lab’s Technical Area 18 on Friday. One hundred people visited Pond Cabin and the Slotin Building. Pond Cabin, built in 1914 by Ashley Pond as an office for a private Sportsman’s Club, it was used during the Manhattan Project by physicist Emilio Segrè’s Radioactivity Group to support plutonium chemistry research. The Slotin Building, built in 1946, was the site of a May 21, 1946, plu

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