A sign greets vistors as they arrive on the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus June 14, 1999. The Los Alamos lab, located with the town of Los Alamos approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, occupies 43 square miles of land in Northern New Mexico. Owned by the Department of Energy, Los Alamos has been managed by the University of California since 1943, when the Laboratory was born as part of the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic weapons during World War II. Allegations of espionage, from within Los Alamos National Laboratory, hit the headlines in March 1999 when scientist Wen Ho Lee was fired from the lab in New Mexico amid suspicions he passed classified information to China. He has not been charged with any crime, and through his lawyer he has denied providing nuclear secrets to China or anyone else. China has also denied spying or stealing U.S. nuclear secrets. (photo by Joe Raedle)
