 Bradbury retired as director of Los Alamos Laboratory in 1970 . His successor , Harold Agnew , invited him to become a senior consultant , but Bradbury declined the offer , although he did serve as a consultant for other government agencies , including the National Academy of Sciences , and as a member of the boards of the Los Alamos Medical Center , the First National Bank of Santa Fe , the Los Alamos YMCA and the Santa Fe Neurological Society . 
