Archaeology-Science
Center of the Universe (Tract)
It was early morning on July 16, 1945. At the Alamogordo Proving Grounds of the Los Alamos Missile Range
near White Sands, New Mexico, a select group of atomic scientists and U. S. military personnel gathered. In the distance was a
100 foot tower and at the top a shack housed a never before tested nuclear device code named Trinity. The countdown began.
Nervous expectations rose higher. Then the button was pushed. In a flash of light
the nuclear age came bursting on the scene...