Jumbo The Trinity Test

The Trinity Test. Jumbo. The bomb design to be used at Trinity Site actually involved two explosions. First there would be a conventional explosion involving the TNT and then, a fraction of a second later, the nuclear explosion, if a chain reaction was maintained. The scientists were sure the TNT would explode, but were initially unsure of the plutonium. If the chain reaction failed to occur, the TNT would blow the very rare and dangerous plutonium all over the countryside.

Trinity Site, by The U.s. Department of Energy

The Manhattan Project Trinity Test: Witnessing the

New Mexico's Trinity Site opens to the public this weekend

The remains of “Jumbo”, a 200-ton, 14-inch thick steel cylinder 10

Archive photos: Trinity Site

The First Test With an Atomic Bomb Created an Unusual Anomaly

A visit to Trinity Site (where the first atomic bomb exploded

Wandering to the Trinity Site

Trinity Site, by The U.s. Department of Energy

Trinity revisited Discover Los Alamos National Laboratory}

Trinity Test -1945 - Nuclear Museum

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity