I am quite often stunned with what I discover in the @ABQJournal Photo Archive. #TheGadget being transported to #TrinitySite in #NewMexico in 1945. National Park Service photo. #History @AtomicHeritagepic.twitter.com/TQ1JrEMZsf
Just to be clear — that is Jumbo (left), a test container meant to contain the bomb (but not used as such), not the bomb itself. (It is commonly, and frustratingly, mixed up in photos. Actual Trinity Gadget (right) was large but not THAT large.) https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/jumbo pic.twitter.com/9hD9f6LVhe
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Thank you so much for the clarification. The minimal caption information with the photo and the ungaget like shape raised some questions for me. Appreciate it!
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Physicist Robert R. Wilson's description of being on the test tower with the Trinity Gadget in the midst of a raging lightning storm is certainly sobering....https://youtu.be/Vm5fCxXnK7Y?t=48m …
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