Gadzooks! That explains why... 
you leave a yellow glow when you wiz!
That's cause of the beer... 
when I'm sober, it glows green!
That's more info... 
than I want'a know, big!
Posted on 07/14/2011 6:30:27 PM PDT by NEWwoman
Gadzooks! That explains why... you leave a yellow glow when you wiz!
That's cause of the beer... when I'm sober, it glows green!
That's more info... than I want'a know, big!
* The glass was removed because of the extremely high radioactivity. *
Tritonite. It was illegal to collect near Ground Zero and we were being watched. Yet, once we left Stallion Gate, signs pointed where we could by it down the road.
I lived in NM for 14 years. 1972-1986
Traveled NM and AZ regularly.
Many of my Ham friends worked at Los Alamos, White Sands, Rat Scat, Holloman AFB, Kirtland AFB, or Ft. Hoochie Coochie.
Learned to admire the great techs that lived in that world. We did a lot of interesting Ham projects during those years.
I ran a Navy MARS station out of my home for 19 years.
No techs where I live now. It miss the community.
My father-in-law was in the weapons business for 40 years. A for real old cold warrior. He was more comfortable with Admirals than POLs. Nature of the beast. He died a year ago last December. About a month before he died I took him to the plant for the last time for an appreciation luncheon. There is a story that goes with that one, another time.
If you got em, smoke em.
Err Nuke em.
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.
Next opportunity for visit: on the first Saturday in October.
It’s worth it.
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!
I loved the ‘Clean Room’ at the farmhouse.
They make so much ado now. Then, they carried the core in a car and took it to the ... ‘Clean Room’.
And standing a distance from the remaining tower base and seeing the depression in the ground.
Amazing!
http://www.atomictourist.com/trinity.htm
...and the schedule - it's definitely on my list -
"Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year—on the first Saturday in April and October"
 Sgt Herbert Lehr delivers the plutonium core to the bomb assembly room at the McDonald Ranch House 12 July 1945 |
bflr
My father was at Bikini for Able and Baker. He’s still kicking with no signs of cancer. Of course, he seems to be one of the exceptions.
I vote for the Buckhorn Burger while down in San Antonio..
Yes, Bobcat Bite is still going strong.
Funny picture. The benches on the left side of the pic are still standing out at the Nevada Test Site, over looking Frenchman’s Flat.
The test was names Trinity, not the location. There are two explanations for Oppenheimer’s name for the test.
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 “Batter my heart, three-person’d God” or more likely, a reference to the divine Hindu trinity of Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). Oppenheimer had an avid interest in Sanskrit literature. Reportedly he quoted the Bhagavad-Gita immediately following the blast.
If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.
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.
My husband read Stalliion Gate, shortly after our visit to Trinity. Then he gave the book away.
I need to get a copy and read it.
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