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| The New Mexican Research Corridor Starts in the North with Los Alamos Laboratory, then runs down to Albuquerque to Sandia Labs, then South to the Very Large Array, the Sunspot Solar Observatory and then on Southwest to the White Sands Missile Range. Since Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Research Corridor in New Mexico has been struggling to restructure to peacetime research. While weapons technology is still pursued, hundreds of nuclear warheads are being defused and destroyed near Albuquerque. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) projects at the Very Large Array (location for a good part of the movie "Contact") continue even though the Roswell incident becomes less and less believeable. Los Alamos Laboratory has gone through enormous changes - a forest fire, intense security issues in recent years, and a change in administration - but its scientists are still actively involved in high-tech research in conjuntion with other facilities such as Chicago's Fermi Institute and Livermore Labs in Califronia. The Manhattan Project was the beginning for Los Alamos but it has continued to be the center for cutting edge nuclear research in the USA. Located in Albuquerque is the New Mexico Engineering Reserch Institute (NMERI), run by the University of New Mexico, which contracts with the government and its labs to perform tests and instrumentation in the never-ending high-tech quest. In the Southern part of the state is White Sands Missile Range. A proving ground for many missiles, it is probably best known for the Trinity Site were the first atom bomb was exploded on the earth. In the Sacramento Mountains that border the East side of the Tularosa Basin in which the missile range lies, is Sunspot where the National Solar Observatory was built and still continues to study the sun. Many medium and small sized private firms serve these various research centers and provide a great deal of high-tech employment in the state. |
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