Originally Posted by
dmitzel
Are you referring as the old Ground-Zero site in NM, aka Manhattan Project? That's cool that they open it up at all to the public. I was flying SAN-DTW a while back, window on the right side of the A/C and was looking towards the desert in the distance for it. Wish I had a GPS so I could gauge appx. how far the old blast area was. Not sure if there is any physical characteristics left after 60+ years anyway that you could see from the air.
Please report back as to how it went on your return. I, among others, have an interest in fissile things that go boom.
Yes. There is a monument at Ground Zero and there are some exhibits including some of the debris from the monitoring equipment and some trinitite, the radioactive glass left in the crater. There is also a protected, covered area of the original crater but Im not sure if that is open to the public.