Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and young soldiers racing to develop the world’s first atomic bomb.

Dirt roads were hastily built and temporary housing came in the form of huts and tents as the outpost’s population ballooned.

The community is facing growing pains again, 80 years later, as Los Alamos National Laboratory takes part in the nation’s most ambitious nuclear weapons effort since World War II.

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The mission calls for modernizing the arsenal with droves of new workers producing plutonium cores — key components for nuclear weapons.

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