Author: JIM CARRIER Special to The Denver Gazette

At the Nuclear Deterrence Summit in Washington, D.C., in January, Denver Gazette correspondent Jim Carrier sat down with Thomas Mason, the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A native of Nova Scotia, Mason, 60, a PhD condensed-matter physicist, was appointed in 2018 after 10 years of directing the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.…

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The Nobel laureates are dead and gone. Oppenheimer stands in a park in bronze. The aura of history is in a museum. And the crowds that a movie brought have dwindled since the July anniversary of the first atomic bombs. Los Alamos today is a factory town. Eighteen thousand work at…