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Nature 425, 240 (18 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425240a
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From Manhattan to Los Alamos
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BOOK REVIEWED-The National Labs: Science in an American System 1947–1974
by Peter J. Westwick
Harvard University Press: 2003. 384 pp. $51.50, £33.50
The National Laboratories are a group of ten research and development institutions, sponsored and largely funded by the US Department of Energy and managed in a style known as GOCO: government-owned, contractor-operated. The individual labs employ up to 10,000 people, including scientists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines, and have annual operating costs ranging from a few hundred million dollars to more than $1 billion.
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