Posted on 07/15/2005 3:31:24 PM PDT by Jefferson2000
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Herb Lehr hasn’t been to Trinity Site since the day a mushroom cloud filled the early morning sky in the New Mexico desert.
Standing 12 miles from the blast, he looked toward the Oscura Mountains and watched as scientists detonated the first atomic bomb 60 years ago Saturday, ushering in the nuclear age.
“All of a sudden this very bright light came out and where I was, it was intense enough that the whole mountain range itself was completely whited out,” he said. “I could see the ball and fire rising up. It was sort of awe-inspiring.”
This Saturday, Lehr will guide a tour bus from the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque to the Trinity Site, on what is now the Army’s restricted White Sands Missile Range.
More than 5,000 people visited the site for the 50th anniversary, and officials said they are prepared for an increase for the 60th. But just like the 50th anniversary, no special events or speeches are planned.
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Behold, I am become Vishnu, destroyer of worlds! BUMP.
The 60th aniversery of the end of WW2 is next month.
V-J celebrations in Iowa, "Three military policemen on a downtown corner were kept busy accepting kisses." (Des Moines, Iowa, August 14, 1945)(click to listen)
Wwhat - are you saying the events are somehow linked?
>>Wwhat - are you saying the events are somehow linked?<<
Conduct a poll, asking what year WW2 ended, and see how many people can answer.
“I could see the ball and fire rising up. It was sort of awe-inspiring.”
Classic understatement from the greatest gen.
" The 60th aniversery of the end of WW2 is next month."
60 years later and Japanese kids are stil being taught in schools that Japan was , more or less the " victim " ...Every year , just before summer vacation ( which starts next week ) the kids are marched down to the local hall and are shown a " peace " themed movie . Inevitably , the US is shown as the aggressor , and also iniveitably the movies end with the explosion of the bomb at Hiroshima . Yesterday's animated movie focused on the firebombing of Tokyo by B-29s , and the story of a little and her family who suffered through that harrowing time . I had to walk out ... You wonder why the Chinese and Koreans bitch about the whitewashing of Japanese wartime atrocities ?
Both Germany and Japan were also working on the A-bomb. It is likely that Russia was, too.
Love the Reagan quote.
I was there back in April. There's a fence surrounding the original crater, and a larger one around the area that's still radioactive (the blast zone). The area's HUGE, and that was a LITTLE one! It fairly gives one to think, it does.
To be fair, the area isn't *that* radioactive, especially compared to the normal background at that altitude (4000 ft.). Did they have someone with a Geiger counter outside the crater when you were there?
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