Nukes

After Old Town we decided that nukes were fun, and went to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. New Mexico has a lot of history related to the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb, and as you may know the physicists working on the project largely did so out of Los Alamos, which is just west of Santa Fe.

We were lucky enough to talk to one of the many volunteers at the museum, who'd worked as an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, starting there all the way back in 1946. He'd personally witnessed several nuclear detonations in Nevada.

All pics here.

Moi, Astrid and the volunteer.


An ICBM. Makes BIG kaboom.


Exact replicas of Little Boy and Fat Man. These weren't made as copies, they were duplicates left over after the war.


Nice.


An old B-52 Stratofortress. It looked so beautiful to this old Cold Warrior I could have hugged it.


An A-7 Corsair.


What they store nuclear waste in.


Duck and cover. Or burn into a cinder.