"In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show." - Wilfred Burchett
Trinity
Was the secret name for the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the US Army at 5:30 AM on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. This test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 50 km(30Miles) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. Which is now part of White Sands Missile Range.
The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components and other things. A base camp was constructed, and there were around 420 people present on the weekend of the test.
People should be "smarter" back then
Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939 when Italian physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the use of fissionable materials for military purposes only.
That same year, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt supporting the theory that an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had great potential as a basis for a weapon of mass destruction.
So the following year on February, the federal government granted a total of $5,000 for research. But in early 1941, with the US now at war with the Axis powers, and fear mounting that Germany was working on its own uranium bomb or something, the War Department took a more active interest, and limits on resources for the project were removed for the time.
- The Manhattan Project, Mexico
Was called that after the place where it all started. Wind its way through many locations during the early period of theoretical exploration, most importantly, the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi successfully set off the first fission chain reaction. But the Project took final form in the desert of New Mexico, where, in 1942, Robert J. Oppenheimer began directing Project Y at a laboratory at Los Alamos, along with such minds as Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Fermi, and others. Here theory and practice came together, as the problems of achieving critical mass-a nuclear explosion-and the construction of a deliverable bomb were worked out.
On the early morning of July 16, 1945, 50km (110miles) south of Santa Fe, the first atomic bomb was detonated.
The scientists and a few dignitaries had removed themselves 12,000 yards away to observe as the first mushroom cloud of searing light stretched 45,000 feet into the air and generated the destructive power of 16,000 to 21,000 tons of TNT. The tower on which the bomb sat when detonated was vaporized and as you can imagine everything around it was gone...
The question, who will get it on their land now? Germans had already surrendered, the only option left was Japan.
And we all know about it. A lot of the things going on in today world are the effects of these bombs. And only time will tell what else WILL happen. We need to put some awareness out there. Even tho now are different times, I still think some countries take it way too easily. And playing with "fireworks" which nobody wants to see go off. Unless you are a psycho...
Btw the original $5,000 budget for the Manhattan Project finally ballooned to a total cost of $2 billion. GREAT JOB! Morons right? We win or we learn...
Whats the most f****** up thing about it is, the Trinity bomb is one of the weakest nuclear weapons ever created and look at the effect it has.
Can you even imagine what it must have been like to witness this in person? I can't even put into words how significant of a thing this has been for human history, and there were people that got to see this with their own eyes. My guess is, they never looked at the world the same way again.
This is a 2min clip of the test
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