# Los Alamos National Laboratory > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Institution / Weapons / Computation **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States national laboratory founded for nuclear-weapons research and later active across national-security and scientific computing. ## Nexus Context The article places Los Alamos calculations on the IAS machine near Barricelli’s artificial-life runs, revealing one substrate serving extinction-scale weapons and generative evolutionary inquiry. ## Evidence Boundary The juxtaposition is historically and morally significant but should not imply the projects shared aims or personnel beyond documented infrastructure links. ## Relationships [[wiki/IAS Computer|IAS Computer]], [[wiki/Ivy Mike|Ivy Mike]], [[wiki/Scientific Patronage|Scientific Patronage]], [[wiki/Infrastructure as Power|Infrastructure as Power]] ## Sources / Provenance - Los Alamos and IAS institutional histories; George Dyson, _Turing’s Cathedral_. <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP --> ## Austin research connections The 2020 UT [[wiki/Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program|PSAAP III]] award names Los Alamos alongside [[wiki/Sandia National Laboratories|Sandia National Laboratories]] and [[wiki/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] in the [[wiki/PECOS|PECOS]] collaboration. This connects the laboratory to the Austin predictive-science lineage through a specific program, including exascale simulation and assessment of uncertainty. **Research map:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|Master document]] <!-- END AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP -->