One of my bucket list items is visiting Trinity Site - first Atomic Bomb explosion. I have a piece of Trinitite (the fused soil from under the explosion) but always wanted to see the place where it all started.
During the 1940's, my Mom was a Nuclear Chemist with the US Bureau of Mines and my Dad was a Physicist working at MIT on RADAR - he was born in England and went over there for much of the war - he came up with a really cool hack for German submarines (much to their dismay).
Trinity Site is open on April 4th this year - just one day. Found out that there is a total eclipse of the moon on that date. Looking forward to doing a time-lapse of the site and the moon...
There is also an unusual Solar Eclipse two weeks earlier - this Friday to be exact.
My only goal for mineral purchases will be some Monazite - specifically Cerium with Thorium (and actually, the most common). I love Thorium and want to own a couple pounds of its ore. Yes, it can be highly radioactive but it is also harmless if you store it correctly (wrapped in an old newspaper and don't crush it and snort the dust - Alpha emitter only).
