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Blogdate: July 29, 2022
Los Alamos, New Mexico |
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All the boys with their Ontario cousins at the site where one of the biggest discoveries in human history was made. |
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A view from the Pajarito Mountain ski hill road overlooking the Los Alamos National Laboratory on the right. |
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All the boys enjoying a packed lunch right in front of Robert Oppenheimer's former house in Los Alamos, NM. |
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Eli in front of life-size replicas right down to the exact colors of "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", the first atomic bombs ever made. |
After a short debate with Bernadette over why I'd take six kids with me to yet another historical site, my reply was simply we can't drive 2500 kilometers and then not drive another sixty to see where the USA invented the atomic bomb. That said, we loaded the van with Bern's cooler full of sandwiches and drinks and made the short drive north to Los Alamos. Not knowing what to expect I was surpised to find a quaint, thriving small community set high in a mesa against the backdrop of the US government guarded facility, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is still the hub of U.S. nuclear research to this very day. As it turned out, our highlight was having a picnic lunch outside the house that Robert Oppenheimer lived in during the time he was at Los Alamos doing what he needed to do for wartime America. |
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