This month’s calendar features the superstructure of the Trinity Tower replica in Heritage Park at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A replica of the Gadget is being hoisted up to the top of the tower.
The Museum’s nine-acre outdoor Heritage Park, in addition to the Trinity Tower, is full of planes, rockets, missiles, cannons, and a nuclear sub sail. In the Park, the Museum also has one of the few, complete 280 MM Atomic Cannons (Atomic Annie) including the transport vehicles.
In addition to the calendar, this month presents some of the Atomic Events that occured in June through the years (1920 to 1954) as well as the 135 Atomic Shots that occured between 1946 and 1992. This includes the first post-war shot, Crossroads: Able (June 30, 1946), which was the first nuclear weapons tests since Trinity and the first detoniation of a nuclear device since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History presents both permanent and changing exhibits of the diverse applications of nuclear science in the past, present, and future. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the museum is ideally located for atomic tourism to Santa Fe and Los Alamos as well.
