foot building. It is built of adobe
which was plastered and painted. An ice
h
ouse is located on the west side along wi
Scope of Course
th
an undergrou
nd cistern which st
Sign up for the online course!
ored rain
water running off the r
- oof. At one time the
north addition contained a toilet and bathtub
which draine
- d into a septic tank northwest
of the house.
There is a large, divided water storage
tank
- Four-hour online course consisting of five modules - participants may start and stop the course at their convenience
- and a Chicago Aeromotor windmill
east of the house. The scientists and support
people used the north
- tank as a swimming
pool during the long hot summer of 1945.
South of the windmill are the remains of a
bunkhouse and a barn which was part
garage. Further to the east ar
- e corrals and
holding pens. The buildings and fixtures
east of the house were stabili
- zed to prevent
further deterioration.
The ranch was abandoned in 194
Scope of Course
-
2
when the Alamogordo Bombing and Gu
-
nnery
Range took over tdiscusses components of a school response plan including a bomb incident response plan. The section on threat and threat assessment includes warning signs of aggressive student behavior.
-
he land to use in
training World War II bombing crews. The
house stood empty until the Manhattan
Project support personnel arrived in early
1945.
Inside the house the northeast room
(the master bedroom) was designated the
assembly room. Workbenches and tables
were installed. To keep dust and sand out of
instruments and tools, the windows were
covered with plastic. Tape was used to
fasten the edges of the plastic and to seal
do
-
ors and cracks in the walls.
The explosion, only two miles away,
did not significantly damage the house.
Most of the windows were blown out,
-
but
the main structure was in discusses the importance of prevention and mitigation. Prevention includes school security assessments and security measures that serve to increase security and safety. Mitigation is what schools do to reduce or eliminate risk and includes implementing critical components of a bomb response plan such as training and exercising the plan.
tact. Years
of rain
water
-
dripping through holes in the roof did
much more damage
-
. The barn did not do as
well. During the Trinity test the roof was
bowed i, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools of the nward and some of the roo
-
fing was
blown away. The roof has since collapsed.
The house stood empty and deteriorating
until19
-
82 when the U.S. Army stabilized
the house to prevent any further
damage. Shortly after, the Department of
En Secret Service and ergy and U.S. Army provid
- ed the funds
for the National Park Service to completely
restore the house.
The work w
as done in
1984. A
ll efforts were directed at making
the house appear as it did on July 12, 1945
when the
house was used in the assembly
process.
(Afterwards)
The story of what happened at Trinity
Site did not come to light until after the
second atomic bomb was exploded over
Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6. President
Truman made th
e announcement that day.
Three days later, August 9, the at New Mexico Tech:
the Japanes
e surrendered.
Trinity Site
became part of what was
then White Sands Proving Ground. The
proving ground was establish
ed on July