Green chile cheeseburger from the Owl Bar and Cafe.
FWIW, Burger Boy in Cedar Crest NM is better IMO.
July 16 marks the 66th anniversary of the first explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. And a month later it ended the most terrible war of the 20th century.
I visited the site in October 2008, one of the two times a year Trinity is open to the public.
Green chile cheeseburger from the Owl Bar and Cafe.
FWIW, Burger Boy in Cedar Crest NM is better IMO.
He and hundreds died of cancer from the exposure.
FrogDad and I went about 15 years ago. The site surprised me in that it was so close to the mountains.
It was also open on July 16, 1995, the 50th anniversary. Two friends and I went and slept in a car overnight to be there at 5:29am. There were a few protesters burning something that smelled like pot to provoke the guards.
The next weekday someone called into Rush’s show and mentioned the protestors. The first time Rush ever personally insulted me was when he implied that everyone there was a deadbeat who had nothing else to do:)
I was there to witness a pivotal place in American history.
Trinity: the union of three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, or the threefold personality of the one Divine Being.
Blowing up the first atomic weapon in a place called Trinity. It’s an interesting and some what freighting coincidence.
Thanks for sharing this. I did not know you could even visit the place. Going to have to add this place to the list of must see places.
LOL - "assurance." At 8,760 hours in a year, divide by 100 and you get a radiation level 87.6 times higher than Denver Colorado. And Denver has one of the highest radiation counts in the country!
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Smith's book is good read, especially for someone (like Mrs SV) who would not read a dry history of the events. The novel gives a look into how this remarkable technological achievement happened in a such desolate place.
Are the remains of Jumbo http://www.pbase.com/pgkps/trinity_site still there? Or has it been sold to the Chinese for recycled?
Interesting, thanks for posting.
My dad was on the Manhattan Project during the war. He was one of relatively few who actually worked on Manhattan (at Columbia University) doing basic research on the problem of separating U235 and U238. I know he spent some time at Oak Ridge, but I don’t know much more than that.
He left me a small silver pin that all project employees were given after the war, and a certificate from the War Department, dated 6 August 1945 (Hiroshima day).