ds for the following two
fireworks hours.
At 5: 10 a.m. the countdown started
and at 5:29:45 the device exploded su
ccessfully.
To most observers th
e brilliance of the
light from the
explosion--watched through
dark gla
sses--overshadowed the shock wave
and
sound that arrived
later. Many wi
tnesses remember the sound bouncing off theIt's going to be a real blast!
an echoing
effect.
Hans Bethe, one of
the contributing
scientists, w
rote "it looked
like a giant
magnesium
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flar
e wh
e wh
ich kept on for what
seemed a whole minute but was actually one
or two seconds. The white
bal
l gr
l gr
ew and
after a few seconds became clouded with
dust whipped up by the explosion from
the
gro
gro
und and rose and left Safety class. Field trip to EMRTC's Torres Lab for practical experiments.
Wed.
behi
behi
nd a black trail
of dus
t particles." Joe McKibben, another scientist, said, "We had a
t particles." Joe McKibben, another scientist, said, "We had a
lot
of f
of f
lood lights on for taking
movies of the control panel. When the
bomb went off, the lights were drowned out
by the big light
Fri.
com
com
ing in through the open
door in the back."
Others were impressed by the heat they
immediately
fel
t. M
t. M
ilitary policeman Davis
said, "The heat was like opening up an oven
door, even at 10 miles.