Trinity and Beyond Page #4

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Perched on steel towers

60 meters high,

the three devices used to Sandstone

employed a new technology

to double the explosive power

of the bomb

using the same amount of

plutonium spent in Nagasaki.

This technology meets the requirements

Department of Defense

create more effective bombs

and increase the capacity of

store nuclear weapons.

Radio controlled tanks,

guided by helicopter

recovered samples

fission near "ground zero",

for measuring the intensity of

neutrons and gamma rays.

Radiochemical analysis

pulverized coral sand

revealed the secrets

the nuclear reaction,

and helped to determine the effectiveness of

bombs of new design.

The results of Sandstone affectrent

the design of future nuclear weapons,

making the components 'Mark-3', used

for the production of Fat Man, obsolete.

Designs 'Mark-4' and 'Mark-5'

led to better performance and a

lighter weight for nuclear weapons.

The division of the laboratory Z

Los Alamos National

moved to the base has Sand,

located in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

near Kirtland Air Force Base.

The main objective of the Sandia Base

was the study and production of nuclear weapons

"Mobile" designed at Los Alamos.

in October 1949,

Western Electric contracted with

The Committee on Atomic Energy,

agreement "no taxes, no profit"

to form the Sandia Corporation

who took control

the basis of Los Alamos.

Sandia has led to techniques

production lines

and mass production

nuclear weapons,

to increase the supply of arms

tactical and strategic nation.

After returning from Bikini,

in public statements,

interviews and published articles,

Admiral Blandey

made important recommendations

on atomic bombs.

It is essential that no other nation

takes the ascendancy over the United States

in the development, manufacture and

the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

"TRUMAN SAYS RUSSIAN

HAVE A BOMB"

"THE L legislator TOLD OF SECRETS

AMERICAN FLIGHT AID S S HAVE THE RUSSIANS"

On 29 August 1949, the Russians did

exploded their first atomic bomb.

This event,

which took place five years earlier

than anyone in the west

have been expected,

was largely responsible

a man, Klaus Fuchs.

Fuchs, a physicist at Los Alamos,

spent blueprints

the design of

Trinity to the Russians.

With the emergence of the USSR

as a nuclear rival in 1949,

the United States were convinced

have good reasons

increase their programs

nuclear testing.

It was very expensive and it

involved a lot of logistics

perform operations

in the Pacific.

In this and in January 1951, the United States

inaugurated the test area of?? Nevada,

we now call

"The Nevada Test Site"

which is located approximately 100 km

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