Trinity monument | explosion site, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, nuclear testing area, historic landmark

USA / New Mexico / Socorro /
 monument, explosion site, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, nuclear testing area, historic landmark
Where the first atomic bomb was exploded.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
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Coordinates:   33°40'38"N   106°28'31"W

Comments

  • Wouldn't the entire area still be radioactive?
  • Yes!!!
  • Concerning lingering radioactivity... This is from wikipedia: More than sixty years after the test, residual radiation at the site measured about ten times higher than normal.[20] The amount of exposure received during a one-hour visit to the site is about half of what a U.S. adult receives on an average day from natural and medical sources.[21] The Trinity monument, a rough-sided, lava rock obelisk around 12 feet (3.65 m) high, marks the explosion's hypocenter, and "Jumbo" is still kept nearby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_site
  • people living in hiroshima and nagasaki don't seem to do too badly...
  • I'm not an expert on radioactivity. However I can tell you that radioactivity was at a level in Hiroshima by 1953 (8 years after the bomb) that during the Korean War the British Army believed it had diminished sufficiently and built a Military Hospital in Hiroshima to treat their casualties. My cousin was badly wounded at the 3rd Battle of the Hook in Korea at the end of May 1953, medivaced to Japan, and spent the next 9 months recovering in Hiroshima. He died in 2010 of a heart condition unrelated to radioactivity.
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