Mayberry's Laboratory is the primary workplace and the site of a momentous ethical decision in Isaac Asimov's short story The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use.
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The laboratory is the private research facility of Professor Norbert Mayberry. While the story does not provide a detailed physical description, it is the contained environment where he conceived, designed, and built the prototype for the Negation Field. It is implied to contain his workbenches, scientific apparatus, and, most importantly, the entirety of his research notes, blueprints, and calculations for the project.
The laboratory serves as a narrative contrast to the open Testing Ground. Where the field was a place of explosive demonstration and military scrutiny, the lab is a private, intellectual space where the invention was born and, ultimately, where it was destroyed.
After the horrifying demonstration at the testing ground, Professor Mayberry returned to this laboratory. It was here, surrounded by the evidence of his genius, that he made the conscious and final decision to sabotage his life's work. He systematically destroyed every component of his research within the lab to prevent the Negation Field from ever being replicated, making his laboratory the final resting place of the technology.