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Subject: Re: The bottle for the bomb
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 13:08:59 EST
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> I don't know what happened to the rest of it, but there is a
> small (about 2' x 3') chunk of this vessel on display in the
> town plaza here in Socorro, New Mexico.  I hear it was broken
> up with conventional explosives; the inside of this piece
> is severely pitted.  No plaque identifies or describes it;
> it is mounted on a small brick pedestal at the east end of
> the plaza.
> 
> Can any of you Manhattan Project old-timers supply more of
> the story?
> -- 
> John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
> USENET: ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!shipman   OR  ihnp4!lanl!unmvax!...

My wife and I visited Trinity Site on July 16, 1985,  the 40th
anniversary of the test.  The remains of "Jumbo", the bottle,
are on display near the south entrance to Ground Zero.  The
ends of the bottle were blown out in some later (conventional?)
test explosion, but the cylinder is still in one piece.

By the way, the MacDonald ranch house about 2 miles southeast has been
restored, and has been designated a National Park.  It's the only
National Park I know of that can only be visited one day a year!

Ron Kukuk