We spent the day in museums in Los Alamos. Normally, a place has a history, but the history of Los Alamos began, basically, in 1939. Oh, there were some homesteaders, but the government ran them off. And, there was a prep school for wealthy east-coast boys, but the government ran them of and used the buildings to start the atomic lab.
They needed a place to blow-up stuff and this remote mesa seemed like just the place. They've been blowing-up stuff ever sense..
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Grandson looking at a replica of Fat Man, the bomb we dropped on Nagasaki to end the war. |
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Grandsons looking at a replica of Little Man, the bomb that put Hiroshima on the world stage. |
It's been a day of museums. The kids will be home from work soon and we'll plan supper.
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