Los Alamos National Laboratory is closed today because of a out-of-control wildfire threatening the area. According to the nuclear lab's website, the blaze dubbed the Las Conchas fire is a little too close for comfort:
According to the lab's website, Los Alamos officials have protected all radioactive and hazardous materials from the approaching fire. Reuters reports the Las Conchas fire has already scorched almost 44,000 acres.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of only two labs in the United States charged with designing nuclear weapons - the other being Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California. Los Alamos is probably best known as the site where the Manhattan Project was born, and where scientists created the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII.
The Pentagon Channel has the latest on the fire fight:
