11/4/2023 0 Comments Moon on twinityThe Gadget components arrive at the test site. Footage of the 100 ton shot can be seen in the movie. This image was provided by Peter Kuran, director of Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (available on video). The pile of 108 tons of Composition B (a TNT/RDX mixture) prior to being blown up in the 100 Ton Test (46 K). The test allowed the calibration of instruments to measure the blast wave, and gave some indication of how fission products might be distributed by the explosion. This is the largest instrumented explosion conducted up to this date. The pile of high explosive was threaded with tubes containing 1000 curies of reactor fission products. This test detonated 108 tons of TNT stacked on a wooden platform 800 yards from Trinity ground zero. To help in preparing the instrumentation for the Trinity shot the "100 Ton Test" was fired on. 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. 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). It is commonly thought that Robert Oppenheimer provided the name, which would seem logical, but even this is not definitely known. The origin of the name Trinity for this event is uncertain. In addition, since no nuclear explosion had ever occurred on Earth, it seemed advisible that at least one should be set off with careful monitoring to test whether all of the theoretical predictions held. The gun-type uranium bomb, in contrast, was certain to be effective and did not merit testing. This design, embodied in the test device called Gadget, involved a new technology that could not be adequately evaluated without a full scale test. This test was intended to prove the radical new implosion weapon design that had been developed at Los Alamos during the previous year. ![]() The first nuclear explosion in history took place in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity. That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. ![]() Trinity 16 July 1945 If the radiance of a thousand suns
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