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Pulling the rug from rural New Mexico
“After the Department of Education made its selection and publicly announced it, the rules changed. That’s not right, and we both know that’s not right,” Wilson told Secretary Paige in a two-page letter delivered today. “I urge you to review and reverse this error.”
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What explosive event shook the world fifty six years ago this week? |
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In the Pre-Dawn hours of July 16th, 1945, the brave men and women of the Manhattan Project saw their months of hard, clandestine work flourish in a glowing brilliance.
At 0529 hours and forty-nine seconds the first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity site, in the Alamogordo bombing range. The blast was so powerful that it vaporized the 100-foot steel tower the bomb was perched upon. The bomb`s intensity was such that it transformed sand at ground zero to green glass.
The enormous blast also created a crater measuring 24,000 feet across and up to ten feet deep in some places.
If you`re interested in learning more about the Trinity site of the Manhattan project please visit the Trinty site web site. |
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