Volume 7 , Issue 3

Trinity Site & Trinitites of New Mexcio...

"On the morning of July 16, 1945 at 5:29 a.m., the desolate peace of a remote New Mexican valley was incinerated by the fire of a powerful man-made star. ..... No more wars of spears and bludgeons, no quaint 'lines of fir' by brightly dressed troops. War was now a strange, new beast, identified by the fascinating, violet-hued mushroom cloud after a collection of the U.S. Army's most brilliant physicists detonated the first atomic bomb. A visit to this historic site in the middle of a beautiful but austere landscape, prophetically named Journey of Death (Jornada del Muerto) by 17th-century Spanish settlers, combines the severe gravity of history with one of the West's loneliest and most historically significant outposts. The Trinity Site lies isolated in the northern section of White Sands Missile Range about an hour and a half due south of Albuquerque......" -- Cyberwest Magazine - New Mexico's Trinity Site: A Pocketful of Trinitite

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