I grew up in Los Alamos, the son of two kids who grew up in Los Alamos, who used to go to Christmas parties at Carson Mark's house, with Norris Bradbury, Richard Feynman, occasionally Edward Teller and Stephen Hawking in attendance, and I have never before heard that term. My mother moved to Los Alamos in 1946. My father made his way there about 1947. Los Alamos was known by then but the guard towers are still up. They stopped checking IDs in '79 or so but started checking them again the last couple times I went back ('08, '11). Most towns had police; we had police, Pro Force (DOE contractors with machine guns), SWAT and Delta. During the Reagan era the guard towers regained 20mm anti-tank guns. On the plus side, I knew more Russians than the average middle American in the '90s.