Museum · Albuquerque, New Mexico
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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The nation’s only congressionally chartered museum of nuclear science and history (a Smithsonian Affiliate) documents the Atomic Age from early research through weapons development and peaceful applications, with an outdoor Heritage Park.
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