Imagine a rustic old ice house sitting next to a duck pond, guarded by an impenetrable steel vault door. Inside? The most terrifying, cutting-edge atomic secrets on the planet. This is the origin of the Bradbury Science Museum, a site that tracks the physical relics of the Manhattan Project and the subsequent weapons programs of the Cold War. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of the Los Alamos laboratory’s public interface, deconstructing how a "vault of secrets" transformed into a hub for Scientific Transparency. We unpack the "Ice House Phase," analyzing the 1963 transition from classified relics to a free, open museum that now showcases everything from the Vela satellites—the birth of space-based Nuclear Su ...