Last Saturday, I had written:
I would guess at least 3,500 people were there at the time we were there with lots of cars leaving as we were driving in and lots more cars arriving as we were driving out. I would not be surprised if they had over 5,000 visitors today.
And the New York Times confirms:
Thousands Visit Trinity on Anniversary of Bomb Explosion
Thousands of visitors converged Saturday on the New Mexico site where the first nuclear bomb was detonated nearly 70 years ago.
More than 5,500 people attended the first of two tours being offered this year at the Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range officials said.
Visitors came not just from all over New Mexico but the U.S. People are continually fascinated to see the place that literally marks a turning point in history, White Sands spokeswoman Erin Dorrance said.
"It brought a quick end to World War II, and it ushered in the atomic age," Dorrance said. "So out here in the middle of nowhere New Mexico changed the world 70 years ago."
It was July 16, 1945, when Los Alamos scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site, located near Alamogordo.
The dawn of a new era - it is up to us to see how we manage the technology.
Insert LFTR propaganda here
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