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[[File:Los_Alamos_Main_Gate_(2).jpg|left|thumbnail|300px|Los Alamos Project Main Gate]]
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Before World War II, Los Alamos, New Mexico was a Boys Ranch School and little else. Even though it was only 33 miles from Santa Fe (New Mexico's capital) it was extremely isolated. Nobody was going to accidentally go to Santa Fe. This made a perfect location for one of the key laboratories that built the atomic bomb during World War II.