Luddites-R us
No kidding. Any black hole they could create there would dissipate in a fraction of a second.
“What didn’t happen”
“We’ve heard plenty about the test called Trinity, but few people know that what what was most important about the explosion was not what happened, but what didn’t happen.”
“The chain reaction did not get out of control. The atmosphere and oceans did not ignite. The world did not end in a planet-enveloping blaze of light. A few dozen physicists bet everything — all life on the planet! — on their ability to calculate in advance the result of an experiment that had never been tried before.”
“Even Hitler blanched at the stakes.”
“Enrico Fermi, one of the most brilliant of the atomic scientists, offered to take bets on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or the entire world. His macabre humor was not appreciated.”
“When the bomb exploded, the confidence of at least one physicist was briefly tested.”
http://www.sciencemusings.com/musingsarchive/2005_10_16_musings.html
I remember reading that before we had ever set of an atomic bomb, some within the program were worried that there was a theoretical possibility it could set off our atmosphere and cook the whole planet.
I think it was mainly the janitors that believed this.