While Manhattan Project staff members watched anxiously, the device exploded over the New Mexico desert,
vaporizing the tower and turning the sand around the base of the tower to a green glass.
Seconds after the explosion came a huge blast wave and heat searing out across the desert.
No one could see the radiation generated by the explosion, but they all knew it was there.
The steel container "Jumbo," weighing over 200 tons and transported to the desert only to be eliminated from the test,
was knocked ajar even though it stood half a mile from ground zero. As the orange and yellow fireball stretched up and spread,
a second column, narrower than the first, rose and flattened into a mushroom shape,
thus providing the atomic age with a visual image that has become imprinted on the human consciousness
as a symbol of power and awesome destruction.

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More pokes of fun at the expense of New Mexico.

Just some fun pokes at New Mexico that most of us New Mexicans have heard at least once in our lives.

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