Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory company history timeline

1957

On September 19, 1957, the Lab conducted the first contained underground nuclear explosion, the Rainier Event, in a tunnel at the Nevada Test Site.

1975

Oral history interview with Wallace B. Reynolds, 1975 December 12.

1978

Oral history interview with Charles Donald Shane, 1978 July 14.

1981

In 1981, it was designated a national laboratory and changed the name to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

1984

Oral history interview with Keith Boyer, 1984 November 5.

1986

Oral history interview with Ray Edward Kidder, 1986 August 20.

1987

Oral history interview with Charles Leon Schwartz, 1987 May 15.

1990

In 1990, the Energy Department joined with the National Institutes of Health and other laboratories around the world to kick off the Human Genome Project, an international collaboration to map the human genome.

1994

In 1994, the Clementine space mission used cameras developed at LLNL to map the entire surface of the moon.

2006

Oral history interview with Edward Joseph Lofgren, 2006 May 6, 13, and 20.

2008

Oral history interview with Ray E. Kidder, 2008 April 29.

2010

Oral history interview with Thomas Tombrello, 2010 December 26-31.

2012

In 2012, the JJ Abrams film "Star Trek Into Darkness" was filmed in the National Ignition Facility.

2017

LLNL 65th Anniversary Book, 2017

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