The US military granted The Post exclusive access for one morning to see the historic area – which is still part of the active White Sands missile test site.
The Trinity nuclear test site is an eerily silent place.
“The first atomic bomb was detonated up above that point on a steel tower that the bomb vaporized, so all that’s left now is one of the footings of that tower,” said Drew Hamilton, US Army Public Affairs Specialist for White Sands Missile Range. As well as green Trinitite there are also red and black variations, which are much rarer, but sometimes found near the test area. Due to its radioactive nature, the US atomic energy commission bulldozed and buried most of it in 1953.
“We’ve had all kind of things from people coming out in full suits and masks, people taking their shoes and just leaving them in the parking lot. Please don’t do that,” Hamilton laughed.Also on the site is the Schmidt-McDonald Ranch House, where the Gadget bomb’s plutonium core was assembled, and the base camp where those involved in the project lived.
“As far as its meaning, as far as whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, we prefer to leave that up to the individual visitor to decide,” Hamilton said.
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