The Trinity explosion, 16 milliseconds after detonation. The viewed hemisphere’s highest point in this image is about 660 feet. Photograph by Berlyn Brixner/ Los Alamos National Laboratory
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
5/7/45= 100 tons of TNT packed around uranium at Alamogordo,
7/16/45= 13 pounds of uranium Trinity Test, Alamogordo
12/10/61=Project Gnome–Vicinity of Carlsbad–Nuclear detonation to determine, if nukes could be used to frack for mineral extraction.
12/10/67 =Project Gas Buggy– Vicinity of north of Gallup-Nuclear detonation to determine if nukes could generate electricity.
AEC/DOD/DOE will conduct tests in New Mexico without regard to the air, soil, or water!
5/7/45= 100 tons of TNT packed around uranium at Alamogordo,
7/16/45= 13 pounds of uranium Trinity Test, Alamogordo
12/10/61=Project Gnome–Vicinity of Carlsbad–Nuclear detonation to determine, if nukes could be used to frack for mineral extraction.
12/10/67 =Project Gas Buggy– Vicinity of north of Gallup-Nuclear detonation to determine if nukes could generate electricity.
AEC/DOD/DOE will conduct tests in New Mexico without regard to the air, soil, or water!