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August Club Meeting

  • 09 Aug 2018
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Beacon Hills, Aksarben

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  • Registration is being done after the 72 hour limit before the event. Attendance is still allowed, but you will not be able to purchase a meal.
  • Lunch Buffet for Members
  • Lunch Buffet for Non-Members

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The legacy of the trinity test

by Barry Butterfield

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan ProjectThe code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test.

Barry Butterfield, one of our very own ECO members, was privileged to be able to visit the site on the day it was opened to the public. He will discuss what he saw there, the history of the project, as well as some of the lesser known matters of the preparations for the test.  


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