This is the History of Trinity Site, where the first Atomic Bomb was tested on July 16, 1945.
He also conducted the majority of the tours to the site for VIPs, news media, and the many groups interested in the.
During that time he coordinated and ran most of the Trinity Site open houses.
One place he ended up many times was Trinity Site.
For 30 years his job gave him the opportunity to leave his desk and discover the 3, 200-square-mile range.
He arrived at White Sands Missile Range in 1977 as a member of the Public Affairs Office.
About the Author: Jim Eckles is a native of Nebraska.
It now stands alone as an educational and entertaining guide to Trinity.
He has extracted that chapter, one of 29 in the large volume, and reworked it, beefing it up with additional information and photos.
In 2013 Eckles published "Pocketful of Rockets: History and Stories Behind White Sands Missile Range" that included a chapter on Trinity Site.
Included are many photographs of the site, some of which have never been published before.
Eckles explains what happened to many of the artifacts associated with the test, like Jumbo and the control bunker, how the site\'s open houses have grown to see thousands of visitors each year, and what the radiation issues are all about.
A compromise was to make the site a National Historic landmark.
The Department of Army vetoed such proposals because the site sits in the middle of White Sands Missile Range.
Also, the story continues after the end of the war as the National Park Service proposed the site be declared a National monument.
The book is filled with first-hand accounts and anecdotes given to the author by the men who were actually there.
Unlike other books that focus on Los Alamos or the Manhattan Project, this book describes what went on at the Bomb test site - how the test bed was prepared, who did the work, how they lived in the desert and what happened to the site after the war.
The test, in an instant, ushered the world into the nuclear age.
This is the History of Trinity Site, where the first Atomic Bomb was tested on July 16, 1945
