I've always had an interest in visiting the Trinity Site, the location where the first atomic weapon was tested in the deserts of New Mexico in July of 1945. With the upcoming Christopher Nolan biopic about Robert Oppenheimer set to be released this summer, I figured now was the time for me to make my journey to Los Alamos and the Trinity Site Open House.

Join me as we learn some history of the Manhattan Project, the work led by Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and what it's like to walk through Ground Zero at the Trinity Site in New Mexico.

At the Trinity Site Open House, we'll find Trinitite, visit the Trinity monument obelisk, examine Jumbo the huge steel cylinder originally intended to encase the bomb, and visit the McDonald Ranch House where scientists where scientists did the final assembly of the Gadget (their nickname for the Fat Man bomb tested at Trinity). I hope you find this piece of WWII history as fascinating as I do.

I want to add that I know this is a sensitive subject (politically, ethically, etc). This video isn’t about that. It’s simply an appreciation of an incredible work of physics (and other disciplines) and a visit to a place that changed the world forever.

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