[ODDJOB UNO]

i had my clearance to go into project mercury los alamos sandia labs and hollomon a.f.b amongst many others here in the sw. i got to go to trinity site where the 1st one was lit off. open once a year to civilians.

project mercury once in the gates and a lil drive is basically a small city of typical drab painted govt buildings. basically had everything to support quite a few people during the 50's 60' 70's. after you leave mercury it is a flat plain of yer typical basin and range geology. about 50 miles in or so are a group of mesas that the horizontal bore shots were performed. that 50 miles from mercury on either side of the road is the BIGGEST GOPHER FARM ON THE PLANET aka nuklar holes in the ground. sedan crater being one of the bigger ones. and when i say BIG I FREEKING MEAN BIG! like if you fell in YOU were a dead man no ifs ands or butts...........BIG! like BIGGER THAN YOUR BRAIN CAN FATHOM!


anyway right outside mercury was a group of bleachers. like at a baseball field but bigger. this was to hold all the vistors and dignitaries. the actual distance back then was ONLY maybe 3-5 miles from GROUND ZERO! they had very lil idea of fallouts effects despite blowing (2) up over japan. the intial thought was the actual explosion caused the human damage not so much fallout. see we were kind of on a very very STEEP LEARNING CURVE! as a self made student of these early tests there is after the freedom of info act quite abit of info to read on each and every test and its scientific purpose. obviously from the one shot is our nuklar artilliary piece proving that a cannon can deliver a nuke and various other tests over the years. operation plowshare was one to see if we could use nukes for mining, creating harbors etc by lighting them off. well anyway the info also shows a few that got away from them due to atmospheric weather conditions changing. as in john waynes entire cast on one movie in hurricane utah getting fallout, all the dead sheep in southern utah etc. this info also shows weather patterns for those days and where the fallout drifted and where it was recorded across the u.s.. remember when chernobyl lit off radiation was detected in the dairy cows in gilbert az. south east of phx in 3.5 days! yep traveled around the world in 3.5 days. during one of the nevada tests the winds during 1956/1957 drove fallout all the way to phx. az.


hence since we had these NUKLAR BOO BOOS over the years and the fact that instrumentation was usually if not always a beeatch to retreive from vertical shots(shafts in dez 1000's of feet down) they opted for horizontal shots over by rampart mesa and other mesas located there. so yeah over the years we learned that fallout is as bad if not worse than the actual detonation and the ensuent blast effects.


yeah cool stuff. just remember the world changed FOREVER that day back in july at trinity site new messiko, and the NUKLAR GENIE HAS BEEN LET OUT OF THE BOTTLE NEVER TO RETURN!


yes i had my hands in the tooling of nuklar bomb triggers,ICBM missile nose cones and towers, and actually signed my azz away at los alamos labs and machined "radiated parts." as far as i know from my RAD BADGES............MY NUTZ ARE NOT GLOWING ANYMORE!