Visiting the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site - White Sands Missile Range

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The Trinity Test Site, where the first nuclear bomb in history was detonated on July 16, 1945, is open to visitors twice a year. On the first Saturday in April and October the site, which is located on the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, visitors can walk the ground where the first atomic bomb was detonated. At the site there is a monument to the test and trinitite, a glassy substance created by the melting desert, can still be found.
Despite being on the White Sands Missile Range, the test site is administered by the National park Service. Normally the test site open house includes a tour of the Schmidt/McDonald house, where the bomb was assembled, but did not on our visit due to recent heavy rains in the area.
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@davidcisco4036 2 года назад

Just a side note: Only 27 miles west and 83 years earlier, from that 1945 location, at the "Battle of Valverde" Soldiers were using Muskets to fight their battles.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Its amazing how fast everything advanced.

@pizzafrenzyman Месяц назад

@@SidetrackAdventures The country is around 240 years old. Seems like a long time. If you are around 60 years old, you've experienced 25% of the nation's history. 33% of it if you are 80. In the 60 years before you were born, the aircraft took to the skies, cars became commonplace and highways constructed coast to coast, the electrical grid goes to every home, air conditioning, TVs, the telephone, 2 World wars, and so much more! Just 50 years ago, the guidance computer on the Apollo lander was running at 2 MHz and weighed 70 pounds. The acceleration of technology today makes the Cambrian explosion look like amateur hour.

@STEVE29WILSON Год назад

We made our visit to the Trinity site this year and it was extremely humbling... Back in 1988 I had a chance to meet Paul tibbetts the pilot of the enola gay in Albuquerque... A true highlight for me.

@janblake9468 2 года назад

My father was on the team that developed the Fat Man implosion detonator at Los Alamos. He was at Trinity. I was born at Los Al in 1945.

@billofrightsamend4 Год назад

My grandfather worked at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. He got a medal and a letter from the president. Someone stole it from him, I think it was my uncle's step son. Anyway do you know who I could write to replace it? I don't know which agency to contact. I've heard of war veterans getting their lost medals returned.

@janblake9468 Год назад

@@billofrightsamend4 I suggest the Manahattan Project museum at Los Alamos if Oak Ridge doesn't have one. I doubt the current Federal nuclear agencies would have the records (let alone even care about someone's letter & medal). Maybe the National Archives? A long shot.

@billofrightsamend4 Год назад

@@janblake9468 yeah, I don't know if they kept record because it was so secret NO one knew about it except the president and people working on it. Nothing like that had been done before. There's a lot of misinformation about it.

@janblake9468 Год назад

@@billofrightsamend4 I'm well versed on the secrecy. To his dying day in 1991, my father would not talk about his A-bomb work. But he would describe our life at Los Alamos. We left in 1946. BTW: before leaving for Trinity, he told my mom to look south about 5:30 am on July 16th. She saw the glow.

@billofrightsamend4 Год назад

@@janblake9468 hehe...yes. All my grandfather told me, was the super strong magnets they had to walk through in some areas, because they couldn't have anything metal. I don't know if it was coming or going or probably both. I guess it was their version of a metal detector. ?? I didn't understand what he was talking about until after he passed away. No one talked about it. And my Aunt was asking what happened to his medal?

@viking00777777 Год назад

I was at Trinity site around 1955 . Dad worked at Holloman For Lockheed and he was told how to get at the site . We were alone that day . I remember all the greenish melted sand that was like a glass. I picked up some I took it home to Alamogordo. The stuff was like a glass flooring covering the whole area. After 10 years in Alamogordo we has boxes full of pottery, arrow heads, fossils and the Trinitite . We left it all when we moved.😮

@robertfritz9916 Год назад

My father worked on the Manhattan Project as a Technical Sergeant in the Army because he had two years of college chemistry before enlisting. He spent most of his time at Oak Ridge Tennessee working in the gaseous diffusion that separated U-238 from U-235 that was used for the Little Boy device. The Trinity test and the Fat man bomb used plutonium. We have visited White Sand but not on the dates ground zero was open. Thanks for the video.

@Moosecock77 2 года назад

Thank you for this. You documented the journey superbly and are very well spoken.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@artbyty Месяц назад

Always the best videos of interesting places. You should consider making a Sidetrack book of sites you've visited!

@warrenmcelroy6998 Год назад

Since this video came out they changed the open dates. Now 1st Sat in April (no change) and 3rd Sat in Oct.

@ms.annthrope415 Месяц назад

I served in White Sands Missile Range in the early 1980s. What a shithole. 60 Mike's to El Paso and 25 miles to Las Cruces to just go to McDs. We not only had cable TV, we had cable radio. We couldn't even get radio! We still have the Von Braun house still on base where Werner Von Braun lived when he was plucked from Germany in Operation Paperclip and brought to work for the US missile development. No monument to Robert Goddard, the American Von Braun, who did much research in rocket development in the 1920s-1930s.

@mssixty3426 Месяц назад

There's Goddard Hall at NMSU in Las Cruces.

@leonajameson8902 2 года назад

I am amazed that it isn’t still highly radioactive.

@jerroldkazynski5480 2 года назад

Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki today.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Supposedly you get more radiation on a cross country flight than by visiting Trinity.

@mitchconner2021 Год назад

Most radiation from nuclear bombs go straight into the atmosphere and dissipate.

@The_Ballers6000 Год назад

i could see white flashes on small portions of the screen, wondering if those are fallout related

@RetroRobbin59 11 месяцев назад

That is awe inspiring. I’ve only been to White Sands sand dunes as a kid.

@Mike44460 Год назад

@5:53, yes this is Jumbo, but it was not the bomb that was exploded there. The scientists thought it might be better to contain the the experiment in case fission didn't take place and lose a great amount of Plutonium. As scientists do they rethought their decision and realized how much fallout would be created detonating the weapon inside Jumbo and passed on that aspect of the test. I believe Jumbo was made in Canton Ohio and blown up with conventional explosives years later.

@dontebeau5090 10 месяцев назад

Very nice video, thank you. One correction, though, Your picture of Jumbo, it was not a bomb. Jumbo was a casing built as they were originally going to explode the bomb inside this 9" thick walled shell(built in ohio), in an attempt to contain the explosion. It was not used as it was determined that the scientists could not visually or technically determine success or failure root causes. Plus if the bomb incinerated it, this would add to plutonium laced metallic mist included in the cloud. It was set to the side of Ground Zero, and was extensively damaged in the blast.

@tonigallegos1325 Год назад

I was born at Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM. My whole side of my Moms side is from and still in Alamogordo. I received a call from my first cousin. She wanted to know what kind of cancer my mom died from. She has to get checked. I myself, I'm 6 yrs free with one boob. Growing up,people my mom knew and went to school with died from cancer. My "Little Gramma", my Moms mom, died from lung cancer. My mom died in from breast cancer. My mom, 2009. I myself am now 6 yrs "free". If anyone in Alamogordo thinks this is not just a fluke like I think it isn't, shouldn't we be questioning the "testing" of that bomb in White Sands before dropping it on Hiroshima?? For real....I'm beside myself right now.... a can of worms were opened up again....but dammit, I'm NOT the only one with these questions or thoughts...

@kyleohara8700 Год назад

I've ALWAYS wanted to go to this place. I know it's only open twice a year because it's on the White Sands but it's just... some place I'd LOVE to go see. Thanks for taking us along, I hope to follow in your steps on this one for sure.

@Ontario100 Год назад

Fascinating! Thanks for posting this.

@Hey-howdy-yall 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate this so much and the pictures especially for keeping it clean for students to view.

@RevMikeBlack Год назад

Nice tour of the site. By the way, Jumbo was not the bomb. It was a metal casing that would have been used to store the bomb in case the bomb started malfunctioning.

@retiredmarine3225 9 месяцев назад

30 years earlier, deployed several times to White Sands Missile Range for testing and exercises on the other side of the mountains north of the Trinity Site. Didn't appreciate history as much then as a young Marine; wish I checked the site out back in the day.

@johnmoriarty6158 2 месяца назад

Ever hear of Russian spies in those mountains ? Illegal prospectors?

@esMusicalus 2 года назад

Amazing to see that bit of trinitite still in the ground after all these years

@ValerieprimcessAmanda Год назад

Thank you. For a well done interesting, informative video.

@lognizam111 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for d video really appreciate it.

@roywhitman7109 9 месяцев назад

I've been to White Sands, but not to Trinity. This is a bucket list trip! Thanks, Steve!

@surendermohanasundaram8716 2 года назад

Thank you for the wonderful video

@DM-lc2cf 2 года назад

Always something interesting to share with us, thanks.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@richardjackson6922 2 года назад

I always enjoy your videos!

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

I appreciate that!

@ldd7525 2 года назад

Eerily captivating. So cool how your interests radiate.

@04mach1speed 5 месяцев назад

So damn cool. Imagine going to the Marshall Islands and seeing where the Thermonuclear tests took place, bombs hundreds of times the power of Trinity. Bombs that reached tens of millions of degrees and vaporizing parts of the islands, and seeing those unbelievable craters. It’s still amazing to me that man can build something so unimaginably powerful for something so small. Incredible

@pigeonpallz1733 2 года назад

I enjoy your videos so much, they give me ideas on things to do with the family. Thank you kind sir

@jamesdickinson1397 Год назад

WOW! This is a site that I really would like to see. I have always wanted to go to some of these sites in NM where they tested the bombs. Thanks for pointing out that it is only open on those two days a year. I'd hate to drive out there and find out I can't get in. Again thanks for doing the video and keep them coming.

@JSees Год назад

This is the only site in N M where the bomb was tested.

@davidvick749 Год назад

I worked fo the DOE in Albuquerque. On the 50th anniversary of I attended a reception that had General Paul Tibbets and General Charles Sweeney and shook their hannds.

@ehcatsfaneric2211 11 месяцев назад

I met Mr. Tibbetts twice once at a book signing in Knoxville and at a gun show in Louisville very furm hand shake and a quality man

@sickofthestupid1067 2 года назад

I hope you went to the Nuclear Museum while you where in town ..............it goes hand in hand with a trip to the Trinity sight .

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Unfortunately we missed it. We didn't get to Albuquerque until late afternoon. Hoping to head back soon though.

@sickofthestupid1067 2 года назад

@@SidetrackAdventures its a lot more interesting then the Balloon museum.

@galardmills5306 2 года назад

Plus, go up to Los Alamos.

@darpub 2 года назад

Always wanted to go there. Is on my bucket list.

@valeriegoode9762 29 дней назад

Thanks for sharing.

@danielarrington6387 Год назад

Very informative thank you i really like this

@davesnothereman7250 2 года назад

Cloudcroft nearby is also a great little gem to visit.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Just looked it up. Will definitely check it out on my next visit.

@GREENBEANJETSFAN 2 года назад

Very interesting vid man. Thanks for posting this. 😁

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@CactusAtlas 2 года назад

Not going to lie... majorly jealous. Seeing White Sands was amazing but really wanted to stop here. Being so close yet so far away, you know? One day! But what an amazing experience! I wonder if the barbecue had radioactive rattlesnake on menu? And I can't even imagine how you estimate the temperature on that thing.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Unfortunately for us we had to get back home by Monday so we didn't get to see White Sands which is a place I really want to check out. Gives us a reason to go back though!

@galardmills5306 2 года назад

The museum at Alamogordo is well worth a long visit.

@travismotorsports9478 2 года назад

The white sands look pretty crazy don’t get why they don’t let people ride on the dooms because grass is growing on the sand and now it don’t look good

@dulanmadubashana5511 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for uploading this rare video ... 👊

@JMdfcv 4 дня назад

Hopefully you grabbed an Owl Burger (green chili cheeseburger) & onion rings from the Owl Bar & Cafe just west in the town of San Antonio (just before I-25). From the grill that served the atomic scientists working Trinity.

@buzaldrin8086 9 месяцев назад

The first Downwinders were in New Mexico.

@whitsundaydreaming 6 месяцев назад

I visited Trinity in 1987. I found a little piece of trinitite then, and I’m surprised there’s still some laying around. Personally I wish the DOD had left the ground intact and built a walking bridge over it and let the glass remain.

@craigw1000 Месяц назад

A great book to read about the development of fission bombs is Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont. As noted by others, Jumbo was not a bomb but rather a containment device that in the end was never used.

@SomeplaceOrAnother 2 года назад

Interesting video 😃👍

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Thank you 👍

@jerryransbarger8927 Год назад

So many people suffered because of this. Not knowing what damage the radioactive has had in the past.

@neilfleming2787 Год назад

WOW, what a place to visit

@glendagaskin151 5 месяцев назад

My brother was in White Sands. He was one of the soldiers who were at the first launching of the red stone missle. I believe I was 10. Years ago. But I remember some things vividly.

@TheRealDrJoey 2 года назад

Much prefer seeing this site on TV instead of in person.

@ironman1518. 4 месяца назад

Am lucky to have been to Trinity site many times, I worked at White Sands.

@MistressGlowWorm 2 года назад

Radioactive rattlesnakes ☺️

@lindagrimmett6564 День назад

Very interesting! I learned just recently that my grandfather worked at the Oak Ridge National Lab. I wonder if he knew what was going on?

@alternatesportshistory3605 2 года назад

Radioactive rattlesnakes? That's got to be part of Fallout 5 when it comes out...

@sickofthestupid1067 2 года назад

the glow in the dark rattlesnakes taste so much better than the normal ones .

@vibingwithvinyl 2 года назад

@@sickofthestupid1067 Indeed. Consuming some can be rather... enlightening.

@sbxdotcom Год назад

Lol I wasn't the only one who focused on that specific part of the video lol

@jimschafer9196 2 года назад

Nice field trip, I was under the impression there was a small mockup town to monitor how these items would fare in a bombing. I guess that was late as they experimented with the bomb.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

The town was at the Nevada test site.

@cookiemonster9542 11 месяцев назад

@@SidetrackAdventurescan people visit the site ? 😮

@racebiketuner Месяц назад

Cool.

@lauraw289 Месяц назад

It's kind of sick that a place like this is treated like a county fair with barbecue.

@jameswilmot8905 Год назад

From the main gate to the site, how long is the drive? Great video!

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

It was about 30-40 minutes.

@twillis449 11 месяцев назад

An interesting counterpart to visiting the Trinity Site is to visit the Bomb Museum (officially Branbury Science Museum) in Los Alamos

@johnnyfreedom3437 2 месяца назад

It is kind of weird to think of it as the bomb that saved my life! My father was stationed tinian in 1945, where the Enola Gay took off from. The whole island had been in training for a land invasion, my father was a flyer! They estimated a million Americans soldiers would have died, one of them probably my father!

@Unidentified-Films 11 месяцев назад

Radioactive rattlesnakes sound terrifying, LOL!

@mitchyoung93 10 месяцев назад

Love that the Padres changed back to brown and gold. Actually makes sense for the name of the club and seperates them from to 28 teams that have blue and red as their colors.

@jacobsaucedo2316 7 месяцев назад

I live in las Cruces NM white sands is close to my town n i been to the military base wit my dad cuz he was moving some militarys furniture n i got to see all the rockets n stuff inside the place they have but this place i need to go for sure but dont no were its at

@user-yk4bi6ml3j 8 месяцев назад

I was at Trinity site! Very interesting place! I learned so much here! Of course I had a guiger count with me! I got a few souvenirs from the gift shop! Dr. Tim Rasico M.D. Ph.D.

@etmccaus 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video. I'd love to see this in person but it's both too far to travel and, especially in light of the new movie release, likely to be absolutely swarmed with tourists going forward.

@SidetrackAdventures 11 месяцев назад

I think the next day its open will be packed because of the movie.

@JasmineApple 2 года назад

Fantastic video. And horrifying, although I know the A-bombs were necessary.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

Thank you!

@JB-rt4mx Год назад

Great Vids !! Saffetey fi de bebes tek dem to de hidey hoals wid meetel doars oar de pooper closssete

@PhredsArmy 8 месяцев назад

This is right in my backyard.

@josiedmo 5 дней назад

My father in law was injured by the atomic bomb blast in 1945 he lived not far from the sight

@bruceday6799 2 года назад

To stand at a place where the world pivoted must take your breath away.

@user-ju9cv9pr6f Месяц назад

Bucket list item

@pletcgm Год назад

What time do you suggest arriving there before it opens at 9:00 am?

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

We got there after it opened and didn't have any trouble with parking or anything.

@pletcgm Год назад

@@SidetrackAdventures Which entrance did you all use?

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

@@pletcgm We entered from the north, off the 380.

@pletcgm Год назад

@@SidetrackAdventures Thanks so much for the info. I am flying out there this October and have been trying to figure out what time to leave for tour.

@conniewojahn6445 2 года назад

Why not radioactive rattlesnakes? Critters at Chernobyl are radioactive.

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

I saw a ton of ants and apparently the ants there took a lot of the trinitite so I wondered what kind of changes were done to them over the years.

@IEchuckie 10 месяцев назад

Where do you think Adam Ant came from? Now it all makes sense

@ernestbetz5982 Месяц назад

i was there 1975.

@larryaldrich4351 17 дней назад

By coincidence I watched Bill Shatner's atomic bomb movie last night. Curious if visitors are permitted to bring their own gieger counter.

@rrhondell 9 месяцев назад

Radioactive rattlesnakes :)

@NLYS27 2 года назад

I was there. In inside the trinity site but around the fencing. The radiation is still pretty strong that it effects your radios with in a 2 mile radius. The taste of the metal in the Air the effecting of breathing in irradiated dust and seeing the white spots of sand due the blast was super cool the most memorable experiences in my life.

@NLYS27 Год назад

@@truthseek3017 progress nuclear?

@raymondfrankwick6965 Месяц назад

42-65274 Ascension-takeoff 1944 2400 hours equator Cross (14th personal of 1034) 42-65274 Accra-landing 1945

@sandyzalecki1145 Год назад

I know the descendants of people who owned the land before it was taken over by the government. Because of that, my husband and I could have gotten a private tour out their, but we never went. It's interesting that they have all had some form of cancer.

@Tla81 4 месяца назад

My dad was an MP during the early 60s. He would be on patrol or road blockage during testing. One time a bobcat came into their camp and wouldn’t leave. They ended up having to kill it due to its aggressive nature.

@jessiev7322 2 года назад

I know I'm totally wrong, but wasn't there a fake neighborhood built to see how the explosion would affect it?

@sickofthestupid1067 2 года назад

that was done at the Nevada test range if I am not mistaken .

@TravelsWithPhil 2 года назад

That was a different explosion and state. it was at the Nevada National Security Site - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

A couple of others have mentioned but that's at the Nevada Test Site. That's also where Indiana Jones got nuked in the fridge I believe!

@jerroldkazynski5480 2 года назад

That's right, it was the Nevada Test Site. I took a bus tour to there. Watched videos on the way and drove to and toured a few of the buildings.

@jonathanmendoza3512 2 года назад

4:00 the is crazy how they use I rock .. and I nuke wapens can make extinct all life

@Ferien7 2 года назад

How is it safe to visit ground zero? Isn’t there harmful radiation there that will persist for hundreds of years?

@SidetrackAdventures 2 года назад

There isn't a lot of extra radiation anymore, it's safe for a visit.

@donboyer7524 Месяц назад

White Sands needs to get their act together and repaint that Fat Man casing, it looks like crap. Also, "Jumbo" was a proposed container for the blast that they decided wasn't needed.

@jocelynastheart2732 2 месяца назад

I know it been years but! I would not want to go near there!

@keiffybby6471 Год назад

y is it not a huge crater there?

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

There is. It isn't that deep but its a half mile wide.

@Gfthce3426 Месяц назад

Pretty sickening 😢

@user-ky3lc1es6g 9 месяцев назад

Bring Bermuda triangle and food now

@user-ky3lc1es6g 9 месяцев назад

Tap

@user-mw8mo2pi6q Год назад

radioactive rattle snakes

@user-iw8dw7bg6o Месяц назад

I have the sign welcome to Virginia

@steveyoung9951 3 месяца назад

Sad we had to drop those bombs, but they gave us no other choice.

@David_7171 10 месяцев назад

Radioactive bbq. ☢️🍖

@KB6YAF Год назад

Do radioactive rattlesnakes glow in the dark?

@SidetrackAdventures Год назад

I hope so.

@bruckbank 2 месяца назад

Where my “nukes are fake” people?

@conniewojahn6445 2 года назад

Sobering. What humans are capable of.

@JuliusSP1 2 года назад

yes. Humans are specialists in genocide. remarkable.

@Moredread25 Год назад

I wanna go. It's too bad they don't have it open on a more regular basis.

@PoseidonIncoming 11 месяцев назад

Who is here after watching the Nolan masterpiece

@retrogamermann 8 месяцев назад

Having this place closed 363 days a year was a dumb decision

@jonathanmendoza3512 2 года назад

7:07 man I love the government CIA

@glocke380 2 года назад

If I understand it correctly, the amount of nuclear material that went critical was about the size of a dime even though the bomb weighed thousands of pounds.

@cookiemonster9542 11 месяцев назад

Really ? O.o

@user-ky3lc1es6g 9 месяцев назад

Why cant you tao or beam me

@JSees Год назад

The original McDonald house is gone, this one is a reproduction.