Joan Hinton
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Joan Hinton was a nuclear physicist and one of the few female scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Dismayed at the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese, she went to li
Bill and Joan Hinton 1993 R01 013
Trinity (nuclear test)
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Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosio
Joan Hinton
…Manhattan Project. Under the supervision of Enrico Fermi, she calibrated neutron detectors to be used in the Alamogordo test. She snuck in to watch the Trinity test and wrote about it: It was like being at the bottom of an ocean of light. We were bathed in it from all directions. The light withdrew into the bomb…
The only well-exposed color photograph of the Trinity test detonation, taken by Jack Aeby
Trinity Site obelisk
Trinity Site (red arrow) near Carrizozo Malpais
The Trinity test base camp