This is a perspective on Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) by a retired LANL physicist who lives in Española, New Mexico and during the years 2008-2009 was a member of the Department of Energy's Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board (NNMCAB). Ambivalence toward the nuclear weapons technology which has been created at LANL, and worries about some of the toxic byproducts of this technology, will be a main theme of these postings.