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Rebecca Ullrich, (raullri@sandia.gov) Corporate Historian

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PUBLICATIONS

 

Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade   Necah Stewart Furman, Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1990). Covering the 1945-1955 period, this is the first volume which addresses the early technical and administrative history of Sandia. Available from the National Atomic Museum Store.
 
Sandia National Laboratories: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest   Leland Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1997). A one-volume general history of Sandia aimed at a non-technical audience. It begins with Sandia's roots in World War II's Manhattan Project and includes historical accounts of nearly all of Sandia projects through the early 1990s. Available from the National Atomic Museum Store.
 
Tonopah Test Range: Outpost of Sandia National Laboratories   Leland Johnson, Tonopah Test Range: Outpost of Sandia National Laboratories, SAND96-0375 (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1996). Provides a summary history of the Tonopah Test Range, the non-nuclear Nevada test facility operated by Sandia. Available from the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
 
Sandia and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant   Carl J. Mora, Sandia and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 1974-1999, SAND99-1482 (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1999). This is the definitive history of the sometimes frustrating but always interesting role Sandia played in the 25-year project that became the recently opened Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Available from the National Atomic Museum Store.
 
    Rebecca Ullrich, Cold War Context Statement, Sandia National Laboratories, California Site, SAND2003-0112 (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 2003) An overview of the historic context in which Sandia National Laboratories/California was created and developed. The Cold War arms race provides the primary historical context to SNL/California built environment. Available from the Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library.
 
A History of Building 828, Sandia National Laboratories   Rebecca Ullrich, A History of Building 828, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND99-1941 (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1999). The last of the original buildings constructed to house Sandia in 1946 when it was still Z Division of Los Alamos. Although not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, Building 828 was seen as an important symbol of Sandia's origins and its history was therefore documented. Available through the Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library.
 
Tech Area II: A History   Rebecca Ullrich, Tech Area II: A History, SAND98-1617 (Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1998). This is a history of Sandia's Tech Area II, opened in 1948 to house nuclear weapon assembly activities. Available from the Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library

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