Principal nuclear weapons installation of the US military from 1946-1971 in Albuquerque, NM, US
Sandia Base was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense from 1946 to 1971.[1] It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For 25 years, the top-secret Sandia Base and its subsidiary installation, Manzano Base, carried on the atomic weapons research, development, design, testing, and training commenced by the Manhattan Project during World War II. Fabrication, assembly, and storage of nuclear weapons was also done at Sandia Base. The base played a key role in the United States nuclear deterrence capability during the Cold War. In 1971 it was merged into Kirtland Air Force Base.
^Albuquerque Journal, "Principal" Field of Special Weapons Now At Sandia Base, July 24, 1947, p.1, col.4
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were drawings of the various components, and stocks of spare parts. At SandiaBase, three Army officers, Captains Albert Bethel, Richard Meyer, and Bobbie...
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Los Alamos. This marked the beginning of the SandiaBase. Nearby Kirtland Field was used as a B-29 base for aircraft compatibility and drop tests. As...
1 stations (but with receive-only capability as at TAC Headquarters, SandiaBase, and the Presidio at San Francisco.) On 20 October 1960, the JCS instructed...
from the top ten percent of their classes to man bomb-assembly teams at SandiaBase, where the assembly staff and facilities had been moved from Los Alamos...
at the Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, and recommended that SandiaBase be transferred from the United States Army Air Corps to the Manhattan...
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both transmit and receive stations, the other four (TAC Headquarters, SandiaBase, ADCC (Blue Ridge Summit), and the Presidio at San Francisco) were receive-only...
organize and command JTF-2, a Joint Chiefs of Staff organization formed at SandiaBase, New Mexico, to test the services' weapon systems. It was staffed by...
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