The Manhattan Project NHP and Bandelier NM

07012018

The Manhattan Project (Los Alamos, NM)

The first stop was Los Alamos Visitors Center.


This was Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's desk and chair.


Hey Tour guide, I think we had better keep and eye on Mrs. Tour guide.  Why KW?  She collects this kind of stuff.


Oh no Tour guide, I told you to keep an eye on her.  She's opening the desk drawer now.


Oh great, she has found something she likes.  Mrs. Tour guide, I've got my eye on you.


Manhattan Project NHP.


Mrs. Tour guide stamping.


Hey Tour guide, why is it that when we go to these sites Mrs. Tour guide gets her picture taken with tall young men?  KW, it has only happened twice. Well, I don't like it. I remember that Italian Stallion guy from Italy when we were in Mount Rushmore NMEM.


Hey Tour guide, who are these two guys we are getting our picture taken with?  Well, LH and CJ are with Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, and you are with Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr.  Oh ok, where have I heard their names before?  Hey wait a minute, these guys invented the nuclear bomb.  Now I'm going to have to go in the clean room and shower off.  KW, there is no radiation around here anymore.  Well,  if you say so Tour guide, but I will shower when we got back to the room.


This was a school taken over by the Federal Government during WWII for the scientists to live and work on the bomb.


Bandelier National Monument


Mrs.Tour guide stamping.


Getting ready to hike the trail.


Climbing up to look in a Pueblo cliff dwellings.




Pueblo village or town.


Right side of a large Kiva.


Left side of the Kiva.


Onward and upward we go.


Is the Tour guide climbing up or down the ladder?




Petroglyphs.






 



Hey Tour guide, they had TV back in the 1100's?  No KW, that is a Pictograph.  Oh ok, because it looks like a test pattern when the TV station used to go off air.


The famous shadow pix.


TTFN:

PS:

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.  It was led by the United States with support of the United Kingdom and Canada.  From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs.

Petroglyphs and pictographs represent two distinctive methods for producing rock art.  Petroglyphs are carved or pecked into an exposed rock surface, while pictographs are painted onto those surfaces.