Posted on 07/16/2017 9:22:26 AM PDT by harpygoddess
It was on this date in 1945 that, for good or ill, the "nuclear age" began, with the explosion of the first experimental atomic bomb, code-named Trinity, in the western desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Trinity, with a yield equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT, was the first spherical implosion bomb, developed at Los Alamos under the auspices of the Manhattan Project during World War II.
The weapon designers were so confident of the success of the simpler gun-barrel configuration that the device of that type dropped on Hiroshima only three weeks later had never been tested. The subsequent Nagasaki bomb (dropped on 9 August) was of the Trinity type.
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~ J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting from the Bhagavad-Gita on witnessing the first atomic explosion, 16 July 1945)
72 yrs. Ago....
It was on this date in 1945 that, for good or ill, the “nuclear age” began,
For good or ill? Is this someone who exercises “revisionist history”, and thinks we should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan????
Thank you for posting. I noticed today’s date this a.m., but could not remember why it stood out to me.
But he saved my Pop’s life and for that I am eternally grateful.
The assembled scientists could not resist setting up a betting pool on the amount of energy released. I.I. Rabi had the 18 kilotons ticket, and he won the pool.
My father was there at Trinity. He was stationed at White Sands to train pilots. That morning he was taking up a group for practice in formation-flying. They were rolling out when they were suddenly told to stop where they were & cut engines. My father said it was as if the sun had risen in an instant & he could see every rivet in the plane.
My mother was at home 20 miles away, & heard the explosion. Of course, they were told an ammo dump had exploded.
White Sands would provide some spectacular sun rises for those of us in Arizona.
Many events can be called “the beginning.” The possibilities of controlled and uncontrolled atomic chain reactions was posited long before the first uncontrolled atomic chain reaction. See Chicago Pile and studies leading up to it.
But he saved my Pop’s life and for that I am eternally grateful.
How many people know why the Trinity test bomb was placed on a 100 foot tall tower?
Some of the scientists involved were of the opinion that, if they initiated an uncontrolled fission reaction, it would continue, affecting any mass it touched. Some thought it would consume the entire Earth.
Oppenheimer disagreed, and they went ahead with the test.
I'm surprised that the Japanese weren't expecting to be nuked - after all, when this bomb was set off, it could hardly have been kept totally secret and they surely had spies in the US.
Praise The Lord and pass the ammunition. That bomb saved the life of my late father-in-law who was serving with the 4th. Marine Division and was recuperating from wounds he suffered on Iwo Jima. He was able to come home, marry his sweetheart, my mother-in-law(Mama is 96) who had four girls, one of whom is today my wife. God Bless America.
The photos earlier in the sequence are actually
more disturbing to me, more like a breach between
realities, holes in space time.
Very interesting..
A little “time travel” if you will.
If we could peak 72 years ahead...
Very interesting..
A little “time travel” if you will.
If we could peak 72 years ahead...
Very interesting..
A little “time travel” if you will.
If we could peak 72 years ahead...
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