"Did you know that all bananas are slightly radioactive?" The young woman picked up a banana lying on the table between a clock with a radium-painted dial and an old Fiesta Ware saucer tinted orange with uranium oxide. Her Geiger counter rattled away, click-click-click, as soon as she held the piece of fruit near it. "One out of every 10,000 Potassium atoms is radioactive, and bananas are high in potassium," she explained, to my husband's and my relief. Too late for us to be spooked by a little radiation. We had already learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, for we were standing at Trinity Site, where the first atomic explosion occurred in July 1945. Trinity Site is the most historically significant destination in this part of central New Mexico, but other scientific sites in the region are open to visitors, too. We came for the bomb site and stayed for the observatories during an early spring weekend road trip that took us to New Mexico's mountains and desert -- and beyond. The Manhattan Project raced to build an atomic weapon before Germany could during World War II, testing One successfully in the remote desert at Trinity before two - More available
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