The Trinity Site is the place where the first atomic bomb was detonated 76 years ago. Its open twice a year to the public, located on the White Sands Missile Range. The ground zero site is still radioactive. Trinitite, a radioactive mineral that was created when the first nuclear bomb was detonated can be found very easily all over the ground zero site.
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In 2008 I was stationed at Holloman AFB NM which is part of White sands. There were several pill box like bunkers built facing the central blast radius that I have been inside of. I was told they had equipment in each to measure the atomic test. The walls were extremely thick and had steel pipe like windows almost big enough to fit through. I was told that these smaller bunkers were manned and that several of the military personnel later died. One small bunkers was filled like a dumpster with discarded early 2000's computers and old Uninterruptable power Supply's. Which was an odd place to discard used government equipment. A lot of the older buildings were being demolished while I was there.
You'd think the caption would spell Los Alamos correctly…
who chooses to go for tour like this? genuine question
2:01 the walk of shame. 😅
What kind of stupid takes a trip to a radioactive Nuclear Bomb site knowing it's still radioactive?
One of the perks about being named Trinity and also liking history is well a lot of things also are named Trinity so lol
Hope your hair grow back
alll this talk about "nuclear winter" and such if we have nuclear war, yet the only cities ever nuked were rebuilt and reppopulated in a matter of months/years and are thriving metropolis to this day… hardly the "nuclear wastelands" the media sugggests happens after a nuclear strike.
and this test site is now a tourist destination… with barely over background radiation (which itself varies greatly by location and is much higher than pre_atomic days now anyway…. lol
Hello Drew. It's worth noting that the aerial photo of the blast site shown at 9:55 also has a much smaller area encircled just to the south south-east of the blast site. That was the "rehearsal" site where the measurement blast was done. 100 tons of TNT was piled up on a wooden tower to "calibrate" the blast effects of the bombs….and all future nukes! Just days or weeks before "Gadget" was detonated!
Was than an AC/DC Bag reference? If you’ve got the time or the inclination.
When is it open twice a year 😢
This place is meant to remind us forever how stupid people are
What a horrible place. But Muricans are all about USA! USA! USA! there.
Death to America.
Cool but its scary to think about that there was a 1 in a million chance that by detonating the bomb it could of vaporized the atmosphere and that goes by pretty much any nuclear bomb ever detonated.
So was the nuke dropped, or detonated during the Trinity test?
Not at all radioactive. The latent radioactivity from nuclear bombs dissipates much, much faster than from nuclear facility meltdowns. It's not even close. I haven't even watched the video yet but this is basic stuff if you understand how radioactive contamination works.
this kid with tshirt of super mario in trinity test bomb, ahahahah basado
Don't see too many Japanese around, wonder why… (sorry, I couldn't resist it).
So it's 50% people there to see the site, 50% circle jerk about their equipment
repeat after me: 'nuCLear', not 'nuCULar' 😉
Only 'Mericans would be so proud of such destruction.
"At one point this ranch ran 12,000 sheep and a thousand head of cattle."
Was that 1000 cattle or 500 two-headed cattle, lol?
how is there no crater of any sorts
the fact people want Radioactive stuff in their house is scary enough. going to a Atomic bomb site, NO THANKS! even if it's small amounts No thanks.
I feel bad for the guy climbing: it's not like he's going to damage it…
LOL "people get annoyed by the sound of the geiger counter"
I can't think of anything more comforting while visiting a nuclear blast sight than a geiger counter calmly ticking away!
It’s cool to see that something that caused mass destruction also is historical.
Lets goo we can have cancer ehen come back😂 ehy people do this😂
The eternal lake of fire after God's judgment day on sin has room for all sinners including the evil misleaders of the world.
Back many moons ago, I was in the Army and totally believed in “ fighting for our freedom “ then I started keeping my ears wide open and eyes looking and thats when I started to realize that there are people are in the military for the good and cops & so on then one day they realize our government is straight full of shit, send us on missions with a long hype story and its just to blow steam up our asses and they have an agenda. If you think they changed u are wrong my friend
As an Italian I’m a little baffled to see tourism in places like that…
I understand that they're going to move the burning man festival there.
Call-ow waiting people. Smh
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI ARE WAR CRIMES. THE WAR WAS ALREADY OVER. AMERICAN DID AN ACT OF TERROR.
It is pronounced Nu-clee-er – not Nuc-U-ler…
Nukes don't exist.
I live an hour and a half away from trinity but 75 to 125 miles as the crow flies
Cool video! Worth seeing in person. Just a correction, HP stands for Health Physicist. Also, your geiger counter isnt a great way to determine how much radiation there actually is at any location as it only measures the number of counts it detects from disintegration events not the actual energy level of those events. So its not a direct comparison between two different items or locations. A dosimeter would be better suited at that.
So…. there is a monument for the first biggest stupidity, at least, human kind did! The one and only, besides external threats, that maybe one day will wipe out the, lets say, 60% of humanity! OK!
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”- Robert Oppenheimer.
This is dope! Even if I get mad every time you say Nuke-Ular 😂
What is your readings compared to
centrgray / rads per hour.?
I've been on the Nevada Test Site tour twice because it's close. Now the waiting list is over a year. Trinity is on the bucket list, guess we'll have to see.
i am become poopenheimer, destroyer of toilets
Why on earth take a picture in front of a memorial pf the deadliest weapon of mass distruction? What is to be proud of?
The fact that you call a nuclear bomb side "national history" clearly shows what's so wrong with your country.
praise be to Atom
My grandfather was director of training for AFWSP and witnessed most of the detonations. He later died of thyroid cancer. RADM Frederick VH Hilles.