Labs in Northern California, New Mexico competing to build new nuclear bomb

June 13, 2006

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design America's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.

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