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Subject: Re: The bottle for the bomb
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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.
> > 
> > Can any of you Manhattan Project old-timers supply more of
> > the story?

> 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 coincidence, I happened to see an advertisement in one of last year's
Aviation Week's put in by Babcock & Wilcox, the nuclear power reactor
people. They apparently contracted to build Jumbo, and the double page
spread shows Jumbo loaded on a rail car with a couple dozen workmen
standing around. The ad states that Jumbo weighed in at 214 tons.

Lyle McElhaney
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