Around 40 years ago, The Guardian wrote a story about Los Alamos – which said it was the location of the first atomic bomb test.
My mother wrote a letter to the editor :
We have lived in Los Alamos a long time, and don’t remember seeing any nuclear explosions. We probably would have noticed.
Didn’t they build the bomb there, but explode it near Alamogordo which is far south of Los Alamos?
OT here, but I think relevant to the main topic of this blog, global warming, as Common Core has been indicted as furthering the educational indoctrination aims of the leftists: http://www.masterresource.org/2014/04/common-core-climate-indoctrination/
Peggy Noonan just posted a piece in the WSJ called: The trouble with Common Core.
My comment:
Noonan is spot on on this, and people look to her as intelligent moderate, and here she has said what we have been saying for a long time: gets the Feds out of education! Her last paragraph is outstanding, and here it is in an abridged form:
The answer is in the name. Common Core. It’s an extension of the Prussian model of education such that everyone believes the same things about everything.
Even my krazy kommie Upper West Side neighbors are protesting CC testing, some of them anyway:
http://www.westsiderag.com/2014/04/11/uws-parents-and-students-rally-against-common-core-tests
Robin at Invisible Serfs Collar would not agree that the ” Core proponents’ objective is good.” He has been getting his hands on the primary source material and reading it for years.
Click on the link to go to his articles on Common Core. He is a lawyer and sometimes a bit difficult to follow but his research is rock solid.
Here are some examples.
I find no evidence to assume that the objective of Common Core proponents “is good.” On the contrary. Their actions to do bad shout so loud that it was obviously their objective.
Must’ve exploded in Los Alamogordo
Sorry Steve but you can’t have The Guardian break the habit of it’s lifetime and actually have them print the unvanished facts in a correction, now would you?
If they did that would be truly unprecedented.
I thought the first nuclear test was at Trinity. I have a piece of Trinitite which I believe the explosion created by melting the sand. But then,I may be wrong,living away down under.
Trinity was the code name of the device.
The location of the test had no name. The idea was to detonate far away from any place with a name. Certainly a long way from Los Alamos!
Thanks for this item, Steve. I smiled big!
They tried to scrape up all the green glass so some fool wouldn’t take it home! I got some too, don’t sleep with it.
The test was done at the “Trinity site” in southern New Mexico, several hundred miles south of Los Alamos.
It became “Trinity site” when Trinity was exploded.
Uh, Billy
Have you passed that chunk of trinitite under a scintillometer?
In any event, I hope you don’t sleep with it under your pillow.
One wonders if Billy carried his trinitite sample back ‘down under’ in a pocket … front or back …
Well Trinity was in a nice little spot named Jornada del Muerto. Yes it is in New Mexico, and yes amazingly New Mexico is a state in the United States of America!
Jornada del Muerto is an area, not a place.
It isn’t Plaza del Muerto
Oh, maybe they think the test was done on Trinity Drive!
Recently, on a site like Buzzfeed, I came across a hilarious post of the results of giving Brits an unlabeled map of the US and asking them to list as many states as they could. The only things listed for New Mexico involved “Breaking Bad”.
“Trinity” was one of Oppie’s enigmatic ideas.