Surrounded by colourful mesas and wide swaths of desert grassland in New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) boasts stunning views. Indeed, that beauty is one reason why Robert Oppenheimer pushed to house one of the nations first nuclear-weapons labs there in 1943; the locations isolation was another. But things have changed since then. The gorgeous surroundings are still cited as a reason to work there, but a changing weapons mission, security scandals and frustrations with the lab's administration have left some wondering if LANL really is an ideal place to work, after all.
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