Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley of the Dead...

“Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain

            The test bomb, at the flash point, reached a temperature of between 2 & 3 million degrees centigrade (conventional bombs reach 500 degrees C which means the test bomb was between 4000 to 6000 times hotter).  The luminosity reached not quite 10 x the brightness of the sun. (Later, Japanese victims located over a mile from the point of detonation, had the retinas of their eyes wielded to the pupils causing instant, permanent blindness.) The flash was visible for approximately 180 miles, audible for approximately 160 miles, at 120 miles glass panes broke out of windows, and at 10 miles the heat was like “opening an oven door”.
             All that power was the result of 1/30th of an ounce of P-239, the fissionable material.

 Part III - A place called Trinity... in the Valley of the Dead...