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Man's Demise...The End of Mankind ?
10/19/2007 10:23 am |
July 16, 1945 The "Trinity" test was the first test of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945 at thirty miles (48 km) southeast of Socorro on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, the same type of weapon later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT, and is usually credited as the beginning of the Atomic Age. Name The exact origin of the name is unknown, but it is often attributed to laboratory leader J. Robert Oppenheimer as a reference to the poetry of John Donne. Oppenheimer had been exposed to Donne primarily through his former girlfriend Jean Tatlock, who had committed suicide in July 1944. In 1962, General Leslie Groves wrote to Oppenheimer on the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it on the basis that it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention. "I did suggest it, but not on [that] ground... Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind. There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: 'As West and East / In all flatt Maps-and I am one-are on, / So death doth touch the Resurrection.'" ("Hymn to God My God, in My Sicknesses"). Oppenheimer continued, "That still does not make a Trinity, but in another, better known devotional poem Donne opens, 'Batter my heart, three person'd God;".' Beyond this, I have no clues whatever." (Holy Sonnets XIV).Rho86 As Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the demonstration, he later said that a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita came to mind: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Hij00 Variants on this quotation exist, both by Oppenheimer and by others. A more common translation of the passage, from Arthur Ryder (from whom Oppenheimer studied Sanskrit at UC Berkeley in the 1930s), is: Death am I, and my present task Destruction. (11:32) Hij00 Since the Gita's first translation into English in 1785, most experts have translated not "Death" but instead "Time". A further elaboration of the supposed Oppenheimer quote often cited is taken from Robert Jungk's 1958 Brighter than a Thousand Suns: If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds.Jun58 On December 21, 1965, Trinity Site was declared a National Historic Landmark district, and was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The public is admitted on the first Saturdays of April and October. More than fifty years after the test, there is still a little residual radiation at the site, about ten times higher than normal.Gre03 Officials maintain that the amount of exposure received during a one-hour visit is far less than that received from eating food and being exposed to the sun.[1] The Trinity monument, a rough-sided, lava rock obelisk around 12 ft (3.65 m) high, marks the explosion's hypocenter, and "Jumbo" is still kept nearby. The site is still a reasonably popular destination for those interested in atomic tourism. On July 16, 2005, a special tour of the site was conducted to mark the 60th anniversary of the Trinity test. Vincit Veritas~Truth Conquers |
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10/20/2007 3:06 pm |
wow, thanks for sharing, cheers May the Lord bless you and keep you
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10/20/2007 7:10 pm |
Hello Sis, Glad you sent me the link for this post. Yes, the insanity of it all is enormous. How awful. Thanks for posting this. Love Rhonda Romans 14 verse 5 One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. 3 Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.
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10/21/2007 3:32 pm |
wow, thanks for sharing, cheers Interesting the lengths man will go to and tag the name of LORD on it!! Thanks for reading and commenting. With Great Love & Blessings, Hiz4Ever † Vincit Veritas~Truth Conquers
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10/21/2007 3:36 pm |
Hello Sis, Glad you sent me the link for this post. Yes, the insanity of it all is enormous. How awful. Thanks for posting this. Love Rhonda It is scary how far man will go and have the nerve to tag the whole thing on the LORD. Doesn't it just grieve you? Thanks for reading and commenting. With Great Love & Blessings, Hiz4Ever † Vincit Veritas~Truth Conquers
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