Sandia National Laboratories Information

Sandia National Laboratories is a Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory with a location on Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, another in Livermore California, as well as Tonopah, Nevada and Kauai, Hawaii. Originally created as Los Alamos’ “Z Division” the branch was responsible for making weapons of the nuclear physics packages designed at the laboratory, and for assembly and testing of the resulting nuclear weapons.

Sandia now improves and maintains the security and reliability of the U. S. nuclear weapons systems, conducts research and development in nuclear nonproliferation, investigates methods for disposal of radioactive waste and has other missions such as homeland security, energy and environmental programs. Sandia also conducts scientific research in a wide variety of fields such as mathematics, materials science, computational biology, psychology and cognitive science.

For information on environmental issues at Sandia’s New Mexico facilities please refer to Citizen Action.