Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion
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- Created Date
- 1945-07-16
- Description
This is a typewritten account of the detonation of the Trinity atomic device, written by physicist Luis W. Alvarez, who witnessed it from a B-29 aircraft flying 24,000 feet over the site. In this report, Alvarez comments upon the detonation itself, the formation of the mushroom cloud, and the observations of the shock wave by the pilot and other passengers in the aircraft. Included are two sketches Alvarez made of the developing mushroom cloud, with notations.
- Creator
- Office for Emergency Management. Office of Scientific Research and Development. 6/28/1941-12/31/1947
- Contributing Institution
- National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
- Type
- imagetext
- Format
- SketchesReportsPaper
- Rights
- Unrestricted
- Chicago citation style
- Office for Emergency Management. Office of Scientific Research and Development. 6/28/1941-12/31/1947. Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion. 1945-07-16. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/594933. (Accessed January 18, 2019.)
- APA citation style
- Office for Emergency Management. Office of Scientific Research and Development. 6/28/1941-12/31/1947, (1945-07-16) Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/594933
- MLA citation style
- Office for Emergency Management. Office of Scientific Research and Development. 6/28/1941-12/31/1947. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://catalog.archives.gov/id/594933>.