Trinity Atomic Bomb Site Visit

April 3, 2004

This obelisk is located at “Ground Zero” at the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site of the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The area is still slightly radioactive. Standing at the site will get you ~1 millirem per hour (10 X of the normal background radiation). Teresa was worried about the effect of the residual radiation here, but then she fed the kids a hot dog they were selling (probably cooked with gamma rays).

I think we should put this monument in our upstairs playroom, because after Grant and his friends finish playing there, it looks like an atomic bomb went off in there J

Grant plays in “Jumbo,” a giant bomb casing. While the kids were playing in the bomb receptacle, a young woman started taking pictures of them. Of course, Teresa chats her up to find out why she was taking pictures of our kids. It turns out she was a reporter from the Albuquerque Tribune and she began to interview Teresa and me. The article will run on April 20^th. If we make the cut, I will definitely post a copy. Does this sound familiar? J

OK…. They ran the story on April 20^th but the only picture they put in the paper was this one below

I have no idea why they ran this photo or what it means