Conversation – 36

In July 1945, a group of thirteen years old girls went camping. They swam at a river in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The girl in front of the picture is Barbara Kent. What the girls did not know is that nearby, the Manhattan Project detonated a nuclear bomb as a test…
Kent described what happened that day:
“We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. The whole sky turned strange. It was as if the sun came out tremendous.” A few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. “But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. And we all thought, ‘Well, the reason it’s hot is because it’s summer.’ We were just 13 years old.”
The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in Jornada del Muerto valley. The site had been selected in part for its supposed isolation. In reality, thousands of people were within a 40-mile radius, some as close as 12 miles away. Yet those living near the bomb site weren’t warned of the test. Nor were they evacuated beforehand or afterward, even as radioactive fallout continued to drop for days…
Barbara Kent and all her friends developed cancer. Every single one of the girls you see in that photo, died before the age of thirty. The only one who lived longer was Kent. And she, too, developed and survived several bouts of cancer. People often forget of the heavy price paid not only by those the atomic bombs were dropped on in Japan, but even by those who lived nearby as they were first developed.
Dapo Michaels one, fascinated by science, who worked in the project. Wasn’t aware of the effect and long term effect. When he saw it, his brain paid him back. He went crazy out of shame, felt responsible and blamed himself. Within a few years he was not able to live at home anymore and went to a mental hospital and died..
Just the same as Marilinga in Australia. How many Aboriginals died of cancer that we don’t even know about..

@oodiebom,

Good Evening I am sorry to hear the sinus issue is still at hand. Bummer! I hope
soon this too shall pass.

Well tomorrow is another day just take your time. 🎈😎

I would not do anything else tonight just relax and enjoy some tea with your
Manuka Honey. 💕

Sweet Dreams and a calm night.

@shoelady60,

Good Evening part of my afternoon was visiting my father’s gravesite. 💕😘
We had a talk and I made sure everything was in place it’s a beautiful cemetery.

Bittersweet week for me but I will make it. 😎

Lady I know how you feel about all the excitement in your City. 😎💕
This event is so much fun and the City really makes it nicer to have a good
time. That is how we feel when we have a Game in Chief’s Kingdom it’s really
a feel good time win or lose. 💕😎

I hope you had a nice dinner we had leftovers and it was so good.

Enjoy this and just relax and do your thing. 😎💕i am sure something fun and exciting
will happen for your mom as long as she has her two beautiful daughters it’s all good. 🎈💕

Sweet Dreams dear friend. 💕