Trinity Site: 1945-1995: A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

By White Sands Missile Range . Public Affairs Office

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664582300

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White Sands Missile Range . Public Affairs Office

Trinity Site: 1945-1995

A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664582300

Table of Contents

Radiation at Trinity Site

How to Get to Trinity Site

Trinity Site National Historic Landmark

The Manhattan Project

The Theory

Building a test site

Jumbo

Bomb Assembly

The test

After the explosion

It's the Schmidt house

Afterwards

White Sands Missile Range

Reading List

Radiation at Trinity Site

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In deciding whether to visit ground zero at Trinity Site, the following information may prove helpful to you.

Radiation levels in the fenced, ground zero area are low. On an average the levels are only 10 times greater than the region's natural background radiation. A one-hour visit to the inner fenced area will result in a whole body exposure of one-half to one milliroentgen.

To put this in perspective, a U.S. adult receives an average exposure of 90 milliroentgens every year from natural and medical sources. For instance, the Department of Energy says we receive between 35 and 50 milliroentgens every year from the sun and from 20 to 35 milliroentgens every year from our food. Living in a