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Kullervo
1st February 2007, 01:50 PM
Has anyone here visited the Trinity site in New Mexico? We'll be out there in April. It's only open two days a year, due to its location in the middle of the missile range.

There are few left who were there for the test. The photographer will be speaking on the tour, sponsored by the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque.
Vorticity
1st February 2007, 02:50 PM
Check out the Bradbury Science Museum here in Los Alamos for a history of nukes.

You can see a real**, live*, nuke there!

* Well, not live.
** And not really, "real". More a shell of one actually. But if you hit someone over the head with it, it'd leave a nasty bump.
Loss Leader
1st February 2007, 02:53 PM
Well, this thread isn't about what I thought it was about.
headscratcher4
1st February 2007, 02:56 PM
Not quite on the level of Trinity, but south of Tucson, you can visit a Titan (?) missle site...very interesting. Just north of Green Valley.
Crazycowbob
1st February 2007, 03:17 PM
Has anyone here visited the Trinity site in New Mexico? We'll be out there in April. It's only open two days a year, due to its location in the middle of the missile range.

There are few left who were there for the test. The photographer will be speaking on the tour, sponsored by the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque.

Lucky man! That is deffinately one of the places I'm going to have to visit someday (Heh, and I suppose it's not that far away...)

What days is it open to the public?
FaisonMars
1st February 2007, 07:10 PM
Has anyone here visited the Trinity site in New Mexico? We'll be out there in April. It's only open two days a year, due to its location in the middle of the missile range.

There are few left who were there for the test. The photographer will be speaking on the tour, sponsored by the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque.

I was there on the morning of the 50th anniversary. It's worth a visit, but there really isn't much there besides a marker. You can still find bits of trinitite, even though it's eroding away.
Solus
1st February 2007, 09:12 PM
Trinity, that was quite a name to use. I wonder if Oppenheimer felt he was really playing god. I could get the information on why the site was named trinity in seconds...

Ah, that's it: Trinity name (http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html)

The origin of the name Trinity for this event is uncertain. It is commonly thought that Robert Oppenheimer provided the name, which would seem logical, but even this is not definitely known. A leading theory is that Oppenhimer did select it, and that he did so with 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 (which he had taught himself to read), and following the Trinity test is reported to have recited the passage from the Bhagavad-Gita that opens this page.

Not the best source but it makes sense. I'm sure he had the Christian reference in mind too.
Kullervo
2nd February 2007, 08:10 AM
Trinity's open the first Saturdays in April and October.

I've been to the Bradbury Museum. It was well worth the trip. The Atomic Museum in Albuquerque is very good as well.

There's side trip to Socorro to see a bunch of shiznit get blown up using conventional explosives, too. And there's the solar observatory in Sunspot.
Well, this thread isn't about what I thought it was about.
Sorry. HAVE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR??

That better?