"This comprehensive history takes us from Sandia's beginning as an outpost of the Los Alamos laboratory to it becoming a national, independent, multipurpose lab. Covering important events that changed national security missions—the Sputnik shock, the Vietnam War, the energy crisis of the 1970s, the end of the Cold War, 9/11, and more, right up to the present— is an encyclopedia of national technological needs and the research carried out to address them." —Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University