Editing Los Alamos National Laboratory (section)

===Post-Cold War===
At the end of the [[Cold War]], both labs went through a process of intense scientific diversification in their research programs to adapt to the changing political conditions that no longer required as much research towards developing new nuclear weapons and has led the lab to increase research for "non-war" science and technology. Los Alamos' nuclear work is currently thought to relate primarily to computer simulations and [[stockpile stewardship]]. The development of the [[Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility]] will allow complex simulations of nuclear tests to take place without full explosive yields.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

The laboratory contributed to the early development of the [[flow cytometry]] technology. In the 1950s, researcher Mack Fulwyler developed a technique for sorting [[erythrocytes]] that combined the Coulter Principle of [[Coulter counter]] technologies, which measures the presence of cells and their size, with ink jet technology, which produces a laminar flow of liquid that breaks up into separate, fine drops. In 1969, Los Alamos reported the first fluorescence detector apparatus, which accurately measured the number and size of ovarian cells and blood cells.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sYZuiy4BbvUC&q=flow+cytometry+principles&pg=PR7 | title=Flow Cytometry First Principles | first = Alice | last = Givan |page=6| isbn=9780471459118 | date=April 5, 2004 }}</ref>

As of 2017, other research performed at the lab included developing cheaper, cleaner biofuels and advancing scientific understanding around renewable energy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Applied Energy Programs |url=https://www.lanl.gov/science-engineering/science-programs/applied-energy-programs |access-date=January 31, 2017 |website=Los Alamos National Laboratory}}</ref>

Non-nuclear [[national security]] and defense development is also a priority at the lab. This includes preventing outbreaks of deadly diseases by improving detection tools and the monitoring the effectiveness of the United States' [[vaccine]] distribution infrastructure. Additional advancements include the ASPECT airplane that can detect bio threats from the sky.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Alamos National Lab: National Security Science |url=https://www.lanl.gov/about/lab-agenda/biosecurity-preparedness |access-date=2019-10-24 |website=www.lanl.gov}}</ref>

====Medical work====
In 2008, development for a safer, more comfortable and accurate test for [[breast cancer]] was ongoing by scientists Lianjie Huang and Kenneth M. Hanson and collaborators. The new technique, called ultrasound-computed tomography (ultrasound CT), uses sound waves to accurately detect small tumors that traditional mammography cannot.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Huang|first1=Lianjie|last2=Hanson|first2=Kenneth M.|last3=Quan|first3=Youli|last4=Li|first4=Cuiping|last5=Duric|first5=Neb|editor2-first=Jan|editor2-last=d'Hooge|editor1-first=Stephen A|editor1-last=McAleavey|chapter=Globally optimized Fourier finite-difference method for ultrasound breast imaging|title=Medical Imaging 2008: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing |series=Proceedings of SPIE|volume=692007|pages=692007|doi=10.1117/12.771024|year=2008|s2cid=14509019}}</ref>

The lab has made intense efforts for [[humanitarian]] causes through its scientific research in medicine. In 2010, three vaccines for the [[Human Immunodeficiency Virus]] were being tested by lab scientist [[Bette Korber]] and her team. "These vaccines might finally deal a lethal blow to the [[HIV|AIDS virus]]", says Chang-Shung Tung, leader of the Lab's Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/hiv_vaccine_strategy_expands_immune_responses_news_release.html |title=HIV Vaccine Strategy Expands Immune Responses |first=Bette |last=Korber |date=March 3, 2010 |publisher=Los Alamos National Laboratory |access-date=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021050027/http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/hiv_vaccine_strategy_expands_immune_responses_news_release.html |archive-date=October 21, 2011 }}</ref>

====Negative publicity====
The laboratory has attracted negative publicity from a number of events. In 1999, Los Alamos scientist [[Wen Ho Lee]] was accused of 59 counts of mishandling classified information by downloading nuclear secrets—"weapons codes" used for computer simulations of nuclear weapons tests—to data tapes and removing them from the lab. After ten months in jail, Lee pleaded guilty to a single count of unauthorized possession of documents, but the other 58 were dismissed with an apology from U.S. District Judge [[James Aubrey Parker|James Parker]] for his incarceration.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/lee_parker_opinion.html
|title=United States of America vs. Wen Ho Lee transcript of Proceedings
|date=September 13, 2000
|access-date=December 18, 2012
}}</ref> Lee had been suspected for having shared U.S. nuclear secrets with [[China]], but investigators were never able to establish what Lee did with the downloaded data.<ref>
{{cite news
|url=http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/wenholee.htm
|title=Wen Ho Lee
|first=Edward Jay
|last=Epstein
|author-link=Edward Jay Epstein
|work=[[Wall Street Journal]]
|date=January 16, 2002
|access-date=December 18, 2012
}}</ref>

In 2000, two computer hard drives containing classified data were announced to have gone missing from a secure area within the laboratory, but were later found behind a photocopier.<ref>{{cite news |last=Risen |first=James |date=17 June 2000 |title=Missing Nuclear Data Found Behind a Los Alamos Copier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/17/us/missing-nuclear-data-found-behind-a-los-alamos-copier.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=14 October 2021}}</ref>