With the release earlier this year of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the southern New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. Trinity Site is usually closed to the public because of its proximity to activity at White Sands Missile Range.
FILE - Scientists and other workers rig the world’s first atomic bomb to raise it up onto a 100-foot tower at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, N.M. The New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated is expecting thousands of visitors Saturday due to the popularity of the movie, “Oppenheimer.” Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark, only opens to the public twice a year.
This may be the first time gaining entry will be like getting a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.that the wait to enter the gates could be as long as two hours. No more than 5,000 visitors are expected to make it within the window between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.National Cinema Day is today, with $4 tickets in movie theaters nationwide
“Oppenheimer,” the retelling of the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, was a summer box office smash. Scientists and military officials established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles away.While the lore surrounding the atomic bomb has become pop culture fodder, it was part of a painful reality for.
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