Construction begins on the Very Large Array in New Mexico
The Very Large Array is the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world.
New Mexico
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Scylla I becomes world’s first machine to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion
The team that achieved it was led by a British scientist named James Tuck. After the success of Scylla-1, Los Alamos went on to build multiple pinch machines over the next few years.