Trinity Site (Shallow Thoughts)

Trinity Site

Last year in April, Dave and I finally got around to driving down for Trinity Site day.

Trinity Site is where the Manhattan Project scientists detonated the first prototype for the "Fat Man" plutonium atomic bomb that would eventually be dropped on Nagasaki.

Trinity Site is technically part of the National Park Service, but it's located on White Sands Missile Range and therefore is closed to the public most of the time. They open it two days a year, usually the first Saturday in April and the third Saturday in October — except that this year's April opening was canceled for unspecified reasons, and apparently they're going to cancel the April opening, leaving only October. This year it's October 21.

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