We made our visit to the Trinity site this year and it was extremely humbling... Back in 1988 I had a chance to meet Paul tibbetts the pilot of the enola gay in Albuquerque... A true highlight for me.
I was at Trinity site around 1955 . Dad worked at Holloman For Lockheed and he was told how to get at the site . We were alone that day . I remember all the greenish melted sand that was like a glass. I picked up some I took it home to Alamogordo. The stuff was like a glass flooring covering the whole area. After 10 years in Alamogordo we has boxes full of pottery, arrow heads, fossils and the Trinitite . We left it all when we moved.😮
My grandfather worked at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. He got a medal and a letter from the president. Someone stole it from him, I think it was my uncle's step son. Anyway do you know who I could write to replace it? I don't know which agency to contact. I've heard of war veterans getting their lost medals returned.
@@billofrightsamend4 I suggest the Manahattan Project museum at Los Alamos if Oak Ridge doesn't have one. I doubt the current Federal nuclear agencies would have the records (let alone even care about someone's letter & medal). Maybe the National Archives? A long shot.
@@janblake9468 yeah, I don't know if they kept record because it was so secret NO one knew about it except the president and people working on it. Nothing like that had been done before. There's a lot of misinformation about it.
@@billofrightsamend4 I'm well versed on the secrecy. To his dying day in 1991, my father would not talk about his A-bomb work. But he would describe our life at Los Alamos. We left in 1946. BTW: before leaving for Trinity, he told my mom to look south about 5:30 am on July 16th. She saw the glow.
@@janblake9468 hehe...yes. All my grandfather told me, was the super strong magnets they had to walk through in some areas, because they couldn't have anything metal. I don't know if it was coming or going or probably both. I guess it was their version of a metal detector. ?? I didn't understand what he was talking about until after he passed away. No one talked about it. And my Aunt was asking what happened to his medal?
Just a side note: Only 27 miles west and 83 years earlier, from that 1945 location, at the "Battle of Valverde" Soldiers were using Muskets to fight their battles.
@@SidetrackAdventures The country is around 240 years old. Seems like a long time. If you are around 60 years old, you've experienced 25% of the nation's history. 33% of it if you are 80. In the 60 years before you were born, the aircraft took to the skies, cars became commonplace and highways constructed coast to coast, the electrical grid goes to every home, air conditioning, TVs, the telephone, 2 World wars, and so much more! Just 50 years ago, the guidance computer on the Apollo lander was running at 2 MHz and weighed 70 pounds. The acceleration of technology today makes the Cambrian explosion look like amateur hour.
My father worked on the Manhattan Project as a Technical Sergeant in the Army because he had two years of college chemistry before enlisting. He spent most of his time at Oak Ridge Tennessee working in the gaseous diffusion that separated U-238 from U-235 that was used for the Little Boy device. The Trinity test and the Fat man bomb used plutonium. We have visited White Sand but not on the dates ground zero was open. Thanks for the video.
One of my fav RUclips channels . . . I love the relaxed way you present American History, showing us what has happened all around us in obscure little places . . . thanks for who you are and all you do!
30 years earlier, deployed several times to White Sands Missile Range for testing and exercises on the other side of the mountains north of the Trinity Site. Didn't appreciate history as much then as a young Marine; wish I checked the site out back in the day.
So damn cool. Imagine going to the Marshall Islands and seeing where the Thermonuclear tests took place, bombs hundreds of times the power of Trinity. Bombs that reached tens of millions of degrees and vaporizing parts of the islands, and seeing those unbelievable craters. It’s still amazing to me that man can build something so unimaginably powerful for something so small. Incredible
I visited Trinity in 1987. I found a little piece of trinitite then, and I’m surprised there’s still some laying around. Personally I wish the DOD had left the ground intact and built a walking bridge over it and let the glass remain.
I was born at Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM. My whole side of my Moms side is from and still in Alamogordo. I received a call from my first cousin. She wanted to know what kind of cancer my mom died from. She has to get checked. I myself, I'm 6 yrs free with one boob. Growing up,people my mom knew and went to school with died from cancer. My "Little Gramma", my Moms mom, died from lung cancer. My mom died in from breast cancer. My mom, 2009. I myself am now 6 yrs "free". If anyone in Alamogordo thinks this is not just a fluke like I think it isn't, shouldn't we be questioning the "testing" of that bomb in White Sands before dropping it on Hiroshima?? For real....I'm beside myself right now.... a can of worms were opened up again....but dammit, I'm NOT the only one with these questions or thoughts...
"Jumbo", was actually a conventional-high-explosives blockbuster, one of several large-scale high-explosives tests detonated in the vicinity of Trinity, to "Register" it's force/yield, before the actual full-scale Fission Shot. The Trinity implosive sphere's physical dimensions, was considerably smaller than this, Steve. Jumbo looks a lot more like the Soviet's Tsar Bomba, the largest manmade (Hydrogen Bomb) explosion ever, at up to 60MT. Now, that one, was still causing significant damage, 200 miles from the hypocenter, with a noticeable thermal pulse felt--at nearly the speed of light--500 miles from the hypocenter! The fireball breached our atmosphere. Tested in October of '61. Astonishing, that the better part of a century has already passed, since Trinity was "popped-off".
@5:53, yes this is Jumbo, but it was not the bomb that was exploded there. The scientists thought it might be better to contain the the experiment in case fission didn't take place and lose a great amount of Plutonium. As scientists do they rethought their decision and realized how much fallout would be created detonating the weapon inside Jumbo and passed on that aspect of the test. I believe Jumbo was made in Canton Ohio and blown up with conventional explosives years later.
I've ALWAYS wanted to go to this place. I know it's only open twice a year because it's on the White Sands but it's just... some place I'd LOVE to go see. Thanks for taking us along, I hope to follow in your steps on this one for sure.
Nice tour of the site. By the way, Jumbo was not the bomb. It was a metal casing that would have been used to store the bomb in case the bomb started malfunctioning.
Very nice video, thank you. One correction, though, Your picture of Jumbo, it was not a bomb. Jumbo was a casing built as they were originally going to explode the bomb inside this 9" thick walled shell(built in ohio), in an attempt to contain the explosion. It was not used as it was determined that the scientists could not visually or technically determine success or failure root causes. Plus if the bomb incinerated it, this would add to plutonium laced metallic mist included in the cloud. It was set to the side of Ground Zero, and was extensively damaged in the blast.
WOW! This is a site that I really would like to see. I have always wanted to go to some of these sites in NM where they tested the bombs. Thanks for pointing out that it is only open on those two days a year. I'd hate to drive out there and find out I can't get in. Again thanks for doing the video and keep them coming.
My brother was in White Sands. He was one of the soldiers who were at the first launching of the red stone missle. I believe I was 10. Years ago. But I remember some things vividly.
Love that the Padres changed back to brown and gold. Actually makes sense for the name of the club and seperates them from to 28 teams that have blue and red as their colors.
I worked fo the DOE in Albuquerque. On the 50th anniversary of I attended a reception that had General Paul Tibbets and General Charles Sweeney and shook their hannds.
Not going to lie... majorly jealous. Seeing White Sands was amazing but really wanted to stop here. Being so close yet so far away, you know? One day! But what an amazing experience! I wonder if the barbecue had radioactive rattlesnake on menu? And I can't even imagine how you estimate the temperature on that thing.
Unfortunately for us we had to get back home by Monday so we didn't get to see White Sands which is a place I really want to check out. Gives us a reason to go back though!
The white sands look pretty crazy don’t get why they don’t let people ride on the dooms because grass is growing on the sand and now it don’t look good
A great book to read about the development of fission bombs is Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont. As noted by others, Jumbo was not a bomb but rather a containment device that in the end was never used.
Hopefully you grabbed an Owl Burger (green chili cheeseburger) & onion rings from the Owl Bar & Cafe just west in the town of San Antonio (just before I-25). From the grill that served the atomic scientists working Trinity.
Nice field trip, I was under the impression there was a small mockup town to monitor how these items would fare in a bombing. I guess that was late as they experimented with the bomb.
It is kind of weird to think of it as the bomb that saved my life! My father was stationed tinian in 1945, where the Enola Gay took off from. The whole island had been in training for a land invasion, my father was a flyer! They estimated a million Americans soldiers would have died, one of them probably my father!
I live in las Cruces NM white sands is close to my town n i been to the military base wit my dad cuz he was moving some militarys furniture n i got to see all the rockets n stuff inside the place they have but this place i need to go for sure but dont no were its at
I was at Trinity site! Very interesting place! I learned so much here! Of course I had a guiger count with me! I got a few souvenirs from the gift shop! Dr. Tim Rasico M.D. Ph.D.
I served in White Sands Missile Range in the early 1980s. What a shithole. 60 Mike's to El Paso and 25 miles to Las Cruces to just go to McDs. We not only had cable TV, we had cable radio. We couldn't even get radio! We still have the Von Braun house still on base where Werner Von Braun lived when he was plucked from Germany in Operation Paperclip and brought to work for the US missile development. No monument to Robert Goddard, the American Von Braun, who did much research in rocket development in the 1920s-1930s.
My dad was an MP during the early 60s. He would be on patrol or road blockage during testing. One time a bobcat came into their camp and wouldn’t leave. They ended up having to kill it due to its aggressive nature.
I was there. In inside the trinity site but around the fencing. The radiation is still pretty strong that it effects your radios with in a 2 mile radius. The taste of the metal in the Air the effecting of breathing in irradiated dust and seeing the white spots of sand due the blast was super cool the most memorable experiences in my life.
I know the descendants of people who owned the land before it was taken over by the government. Because of that, my husband and I could have gotten a private tour out their, but we never went. It's interesting that they have all had some form of cancer.
Thanks for this video. I'd love to see this in person but it's both too far to travel and, especially in light of the new movie release, likely to be absolutely swarmed with tourists going forward.
White Sands needs to get their act together and repaint that Fat Man casing, it looks like crap. Also, "Jumbo" was a proposed container for the blast that they decided wasn't needed.
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We made our visit to the Trinity site this year and it was extremely humbling... Back in 1988 I had a chance to meet Paul tibbetts the pilot of the enola gay in Albuquerque... A true highlight for me.
I was at Trinity site around 1955 . Dad worked at Holloman For Lockheed and he was told how to get at the site . We were alone that day . I remember all the greenish melted sand that was like a glass. I picked up some I took it home to Alamogordo. The stuff was like a glass flooring covering the whole area. After 10 years in Alamogordo we has boxes full of pottery, arrow heads, fossils and the Trinitite . We left it all when we moved.😮
My father was on the team that developed the Fat Man implosion detonator at Los Alamos. He was at Trinity. I was born at Los Al in 1945.
My grandfather worked at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. He got a medal and a letter from the president. Someone stole it from him, I think it was my uncle's step son. Anyway do you know who I could write to replace it? I don't know which agency to contact. I've heard of war veterans getting their lost medals returned.
@@billofrightsamend4 I suggest the Manahattan Project museum at Los Alamos if Oak Ridge doesn't have one. I doubt the current Federal nuclear agencies would have the records (let alone even care about someone's letter & medal). Maybe the National Archives? A long shot.
@@janblake9468 yeah, I don't know if they kept record because it was so secret NO one knew about it except the president and people working on it. Nothing like that had been done before. There's a lot of misinformation about it.
@@billofrightsamend4 I'm well versed on the secrecy. To his dying day in 1991, my father would not talk about his A-bomb work. But he would describe our life at Los Alamos. We left in 1946. BTW: before leaving for Trinity, he told my mom to look south about 5:30 am on July 16th. She saw the glow.
@@janblake9468 hehe...yes. All my grandfather told me, was the super strong magnets they had to walk through in some areas, because they couldn't have anything metal. I don't know if it was coming or going or probably both. I guess it was their version of a metal detector. ?? I didn't understand what he was talking about until after he passed away. No one talked about it. And my Aunt was asking what happened to his medal?
Just a side note:
Only 27 miles west and 83 years earlier, from that 1945 location, at the "Battle of Valverde" Soldiers were using Muskets to fight their battles.
Its amazing how fast everything advanced.
@@SidetrackAdventures The country is around 240 years old. Seems like a long time. If you are around 60 years old, you've experienced 25% of the nation's history. 33% of it if you are 80. In the 60 years before you were born, the aircraft took to the skies, cars became commonplace and highways constructed coast to coast, the electrical grid goes to every home, air conditioning, TVs, the telephone, 2 World wars, and so much more! Just 50 years ago, the guidance computer on the Apollo lander was running at 2 MHz and weighed 70 pounds. The acceleration of technology today makes the Cambrian explosion look like amateur hour.
That is a mind boggling fact.
My father worked on the Manhattan Project as a Technical Sergeant in the Army because he had two years of college chemistry before enlisting. He spent most of his time at Oak Ridge Tennessee working in the gaseous diffusion that separated U-238 from U-235 that was used for the Little Boy device. The Trinity test and the Fat man bomb used plutonium. We have visited White Sand but not on the dates ground zero was open. Thanks for the video.
One of my fav RUclips channels . . . I love the relaxed way you present American History, showing us what has happened all around us in obscure little places . . . thanks for who you are and all you do!
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Thank you Steve for another fantastic adventure.
Thank you for this. You documented the journey superbly and are very well spoken.
Thank you so much!
Since this video came out they changed the open dates. Now 1st Sat in April (no change) and 3rd Sat in Oct.
30 years earlier, deployed several times to White Sands Missile Range for testing and exercises on the other side of the mountains north of the Trinity Site. Didn't appreciate history as much then as a young Marine; wish I checked the site out back in the day.
Ever hear of Russian spies in those mountains ? Illegal prospectors?
Stopped at this site but it was shut!
Thanks for visiting and showing the site.😎🇬🇧
No problem. They only let people in twice a year usually.
So damn cool. Imagine going to the Marshall Islands and seeing where the Thermonuclear tests took place, bombs hundreds of times the power of Trinity. Bombs that reached tens of millions of degrees and vaporizing parts of the islands, and seeing those unbelievable craters. It’s still amazing to me that man can build something so unimaginably powerful for something so small. Incredible
I visited Trinity in 1987. I found a little piece of trinitite then, and I’m surprised there’s still some laying around. Personally I wish the DOD had left the ground intact and built a walking bridge over it and let the glass remain.
I was born at Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM. My whole side of my Moms side is from and still in Alamogordo.
I received a call from my first cousin. She wanted to know what kind of cancer my mom died from. She has to get checked. I myself, I'm 6 yrs free with one boob. Growing up,people my mom knew and went to school with died from cancer. My "Little Gramma", my Moms mom, died from lung cancer. My mom died in from breast cancer. My mom, 2009. I myself am now 6 yrs "free".
If anyone in Alamogordo thinks this is not just a fluke like I think it isn't, shouldn't we be questioning the "testing" of that bomb in White Sands before dropping it on Hiroshima??
For real....I'm beside myself right now.... a can of worms were opened up again....but dammit, I'm NOT the only one with these questions or thoughts...
"Jumbo", was actually a conventional-high-explosives blockbuster, one of several large-scale high-explosives tests detonated in the vicinity of Trinity, to "Register" it's force/yield, before the actual full-scale Fission Shot. The Trinity implosive sphere's physical dimensions, was considerably smaller than this, Steve.
Jumbo looks a lot more like the Soviet's Tsar Bomba, the largest manmade (Hydrogen Bomb) explosion ever, at up to 60MT. Now, that one, was still causing significant damage, 200 miles from the hypocenter, with a noticeable thermal pulse felt--at nearly the speed of light--500 miles from the hypocenter! The fireball breached our atmosphere. Tested in October of '61.
Astonishing, that the better part of a century has already passed, since Trinity was "popped-off".
@5:53, yes this is Jumbo, but it was not the bomb that was exploded there. The scientists thought it might be better to contain the the experiment in case fission didn't take place and lose a great amount of Plutonium. As scientists do they rethought their decision and realized how much fallout would be created detonating the weapon inside Jumbo and passed on that aspect of the test. I believe Jumbo was made in Canton Ohio and blown up with conventional explosives years later.
Always the best videos of interesting places. You should consider making a Sidetrack book of sites you've visited!
What a great video. Thanks for sharing. Hard to imagine what it was like there on the day of the explosion.
I've been to White Sands, but not to Trinity. This is a bucket list trip! Thanks, Steve!
I always enjoy your videos!
I appreciate that!
I appreciate this so much and the pictures especially for keeping it clean for students to view.
The first Downwinders were in New Mexico.
I've ALWAYS wanted to go to this place. I know it's only open twice a year because it's on the White Sands but it's just... some place I'd LOVE to go see. Thanks for taking us along, I hope to follow in your steps on this one for sure.
Nice tour of the site. By the way, Jumbo was not the bomb. It was a metal casing that would have been used to store the bomb in case the bomb started malfunctioning.
I never woulda thought to visit this place. Thanks.
Very nice video, thank you. One correction, though, Your picture of Jumbo, it was not a bomb. Jumbo was a casing built as they were originally going to explode the bomb inside this 9" thick walled shell(built in ohio), in an attempt to contain the explosion. It was not used as it was determined that the scientists could not visually or technically determine success or failure root causes. Plus if the bomb incinerated it, this would add to plutonium laced metallic mist included in the cloud. It was set to the side of Ground Zero, and was extensively damaged in the blast.
Thanks for a great video.
Eerily captivating. So cool how your interests radiate.
Always something interesting to share with us, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you. For a well done interesting, informative video.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting this.
WOW! This is a site that I really would like to see. I have always wanted to go to some of these sites in NM where they tested the bombs. Thanks for pointing out that it is only open on those two days a year. I'd hate to drive out there and find out I can't get in. Again thanks for doing the video and keep them coming.
This is the only site in N M where the bomb was tested.
Much prefer seeing this site on TV instead of in person.
Always wanted to go there. Is on my bucket list.
I enjoy your videos so much, they give me ideas on things to do with the family. Thank you kind sir
Thanks for sharing.
Amazing to see that bit of trinitite still in the ground after all these years
I worked at North Oscura Peak, mountain east of site, back in the 80s. I looked down on that place every day for years.
My brother was in White Sands. He was one of the soldiers who were at the first launching of the red stone missle. I believe I was 10. Years ago. But I remember some things vividly.
Thanks for uploading this rare video ... 👊
I hope you went to the Nuclear Museum while you where in town ..............it goes hand in hand with a trip to the Trinity sight .
Unfortunately we missed it. We didn't get to Albuquerque until late afternoon. Hoping to head back soon though.
@@SidetrackAdventures its a lot more interesting then the Balloon museum.
Cloudcroft nearby is also a great little gem to visit.
Just looked it up. Will definitely check it out on my next visit.
Love that the Padres changed back to brown and gold. Actually makes sense for the name of the club and seperates them from to 28 teams that have blue and red as their colors.
I worked fo the DOE in Albuquerque. On the 50th anniversary of I attended a reception that had General Paul Tibbets and General Charles Sweeney and shook their hannds.
I met Mr. Tibbetts twice once at a book signing in Knoxville and at a gun show in Louisville very furm hand shake and a quality man
Thanks for d video really appreciate it.
Very informative thank you i really like this
Not going to lie... majorly jealous. Seeing White Sands was amazing but really wanted to stop here. Being so close yet so far away, you know? One day! But what an amazing experience! I wonder if the barbecue had radioactive rattlesnake on menu? And I can't even imagine how you estimate the temperature on that thing.
Unfortunately for us we had to get back home by Monday so we didn't get to see White Sands which is a place I really want to check out. Gives us a reason to go back though!
The white sands look pretty crazy don’t get why they don’t let people ride on the dooms because grass is growing on the sand and now it don’t look good
WOW, what a place to visit
Thank you for the wonderful video
A great book to read about the development of fission bombs is Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont. As noted by others, Jumbo was not a bomb but rather a containment device that in the end was never used.
Am lucky to have been to Trinity site many times, I worked at White Sands.
Interesting video 😃👍
Thank you 👍
Very interesting vid man. Thanks for posting this. 😁
Glad you enjoyed it!
So many people suffered because of this. Not knowing what damage the radioactive has had in the past.
I am amazed that it isn’t still highly radioactive.
Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki today.
Supposedly you get more radiation on a cross country flight than by visiting Trinity.
Most radiation from nuclear bombs go straight into the atmosphere and dissipate.
i could see white flashes on small portions of the screen, wondering if those are fallout related
That is awe inspiring. I’ve only been to White Sands sand dunes as a kid.
My father in law was injured by the atomic bomb blast in 1945 he lived not far from the sight
Cool.
It's kind of sick that a place like this is treated like a county fair with barbecue.
Hopefully you grabbed an Owl Burger (green chili cheeseburger) & onion rings from the Owl Bar & Cafe just west in the town of San Antonio (just before I-25). From the grill that served the atomic scientists working Trinity.
Very interesting! I learned just recently that my grandfather worked at the Oak Ridge National Lab. I wonder if he knew what was going on?
To stand at a place where the world pivoted must take your breath away.
An interesting counterpart to visiting the Trinity Site is to visit the Bomb Museum (officially Branbury Science Museum) in Los Alamos
Radioactive rattlesnakes ☺️
From the main gate to the site, how long is the drive? Great video!
It was about 30-40 minutes.
Nice field trip, I was under the impression there was a small mockup town to monitor how these items would fare in a bombing. I guess that was late as they experimented with the bomb.
The town was at the Nevada test site.
@@SidetrackAdventurescan people visit the site ? 😮
It is kind of weird to think of it as the bomb that saved my life! My father was stationed tinian in 1945, where the Enola Gay took off from. The whole island had been in training for a land invasion, my father was a flyer! They estimated a million Americans soldiers would have died, one of them probably my father!
Radioactive rattlesnakes sound terrifying, LOL!
I would love to go see this before i die
... my dad worked at White Sands ...
I live in las Cruces NM white sands is close to my town n i been to the military base wit my dad cuz he was moving some militarys furniture n i got to see all the rockets n stuff inside the place they have but this place i need to go for sure but dont no were its at
I was at Trinity site! Very interesting place! I learned so much here! Of course I had a guiger count with me! I got a few souvenirs from the gift shop! Dr. Tim Rasico M.D. Ph.D.
Radioactive rattlesnakes? That's got to be part of Fallout 5 when it comes out...
the glow in the dark rattlesnakes taste so much better than the normal ones .
@@sickofthestupid1067 Indeed. Consuming some can be rather... enlightening.
Lol I wasn't the only one who focused on that specific part of the video lol
I served in White Sands Missile Range in the early 1980s. What a shithole. 60 Mike's to El Paso and 25 miles to Las Cruces to just go to McDs. We not only had cable TV, we had cable radio. We couldn't even get radio!
We still have the Von Braun house still on base where Werner Von Braun lived when he was plucked from Germany in Operation Paperclip and brought to work for the US missile development. No monument to Robert Goddard, the American Von Braun, who did much research in rocket development in the 1920s-1930s.
There's Goddard Hall at NMSU in Las Cruces.
This is about the trinity site, not about being a whiner.
Bucket list item
My dad was an MP during the early 60s. He would be on patrol or road blockage during testing. One time a bobcat came into their camp and wouldn’t leave. They ended up having to kill it due to its aggressive nature.
Where my “nukes are fake” people?
What time do you suggest arriving there before it opens at 9:00 am?
We got there after it opened and didn't have any trouble with parking or anything.
@@SidetrackAdventures Which entrance did you all use?
@@MickPletcher We entered from the north, off the 380.
@@SidetrackAdventures Thanks so much for the info. I am flying out there this October and have been trying to figure out what time to leave for tour.
Why not radioactive rattlesnakes? Critters at Chernobyl are radioactive.
I saw a ton of ants and apparently the ants there took a lot of the trinitite so I wondered what kind of changes were done to them over the years.
Where do you think Adam Ant came from? Now it all makes sense
I was there. In inside the trinity site but around the fencing. The radiation is still pretty strong that it effects your radios with in a 2 mile radius. The taste of the metal in the Air the effecting of breathing in irradiated dust and seeing the white spots of sand due the blast was super cool the most memorable experiences in my life.
@@truthseek3017 progress nuclear?
This is right in my backyard.
Fantastic video. And horrifying, although I know the A-bombs were necessary.
Thank you!
Great Vids !! Saffetey fi de bebes tek dem to de hidey hoals wid meetel doars oar de pooper closssete
i was there 1975.
I know the descendants of people who owned the land before it was taken over by the government. Because of that, my husband and I could have gotten a private tour out their, but we never went. It's interesting that they have all had some form of cancer.
By coincidence I watched Bill Shatner's atomic bomb movie last night. Curious if visitors are permitted to bring their own gieger counter.
The day the earth stood still
Thanks for this video. I'd love to see this in person but it's both too far to travel and, especially in light of the new movie release, likely to be absolutely swarmed with tourists going forward.
I think the next day its open will be packed because of the movie.
White Sands needs to get their act together and repaint that Fat Man casing, it looks like crap. Also, "Jumbo" was a proposed container for the blast that they decided wasn't needed.
Fyi there is now only one day in fall you can visit
Having this place closed 363 days a year was a dumb decision
How is it safe to visit ground zero? Isn’t there harmful radiation there that will persist for hundreds of years?
There isn't a lot of extra radiation anymore, it's safe for a visit.
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I know I'm totally wrong, but wasn't there a fake neighborhood built to see how the explosion would affect it?
that was done at the Nevada test range if I am not mistaken .
That was a different explosion and state. it was at the Nevada National Security Site - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
A couple of others have mentioned but that's at the Nevada Test Site. That's also where Indiana Jones got nuked in the fridge I believe!
That's right, it was the Nevada Test Site. I took a bus tour to there. Watched videos on the way and drove to and toured a few of the buildings.
Radioactive rattlesnakes :)
y is it not a huge crater there?
There is. It isn't that deep but its a half mile wide.
I know it been years but! I would not want to go near there!
4:00 the is crazy how they use I rock .. and I nuke wapens can make extinct all life
Who is here after watching the Nolan masterpiece
Radioactive bbq. ☢️🍖
Bring Bermuda triangle and food now
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