Rare TRINITITE from NM Trinity Site- 1st Nuclear Blast
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You are looking at rare trinite that was picked up by military personnel in the 1960s and 70s from around the Trinity Site. Trinity was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb . This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico , at the White Sands Proving Ground , now the White Sands Missile Range . The date of the test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age . At 5:30 a.m. that day, the first atomic bomb was detonated at a site called Trinity, about 50 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. All life on earth has been touched by the event which took place here. Attention eBay , there is a display case of trinitite near Ground Zero. Behind it is a Geiger counter. In the picture, the old style clock to the right was part of the interpreter’s demonstration. She was showing that old clocks and meters which had radium coatings on their dials generate greater radiation readings than the trinitite. Many things in your house are more radioactive!The next photo shows then and now. The left photo was taken 28 hours after the detonation. The scale at lower left is 100 yards. The crater is circled. The right photo is the contemporary site. The circular fence encloses the blast area; the oval
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