The Declassified Truths from & around the 'Trinity' Test – Part 1
Trinity’s Dress Rehearsal – The “100-Ton Test” conducted at Ground Zero on May 07, 1945 – 68 Days Prior to Trinity.
Latest declassified material reveals that the Trinity test planners and Los Alamos scientists even conducted a dress rehearsal of Trinity referred to as the 100-ton test. The National Security Archives mentions, citing declassified documents, “On 7 May 1945, two months before the16 July test, Los Alamos scientists staged a “dress rehearsal” by detonating 108 tons of high explosives. The “100-ton test,” the largest explosion ever up to that point, included an experiment for measuring the dispersal of radioactive materials following explosions.
As part of the test, a flexible tube, containing a small amount of plutonium interlaced in the pile of high explosives, was procured from the Hanford site, and had been dissolved in chemicals prior to being mixed with the conventional high explosives. According to a later evaluation, by Los Alamos medical expert Louis Hempelmann, the risks were “slight” that the dispersed plutonium could have adverse consequences, but this was the first time ever that an explosion had spread plutonium.”
The primary objective of the test was to help the involved scientists and technicians prepare their measuring as well as communication systems for Trinity, in addition, to assess the mechanism of dispersion of radioactive materials into the atmosphere following explosions, as it had never been studied before.
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