{"id":3054,"date":"2013-04-08T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2013\/04\/08\/trinity"},"modified":"2021-09-22T06:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:13:57","slug":"trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When one discovers that a place in America is only open to the public two days a year, curiosity arises as to why.

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That is until one finds that place still contains radiation from the first Atomic Bomb test explosion conducted on July 16th, 1945.<\/p>\n

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Known as the Trinity Site in New Mexico, the White Sands Missile Range allows the public to enter Ground Zero the first Saturday of April and October. Yesterday I walked where sand was turned into glass…..<\/p>\n

J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Trinity test and whom many call the ” father of the atomic bomb”, remarked after the explosion, ” Now I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.”<\/i>