Jumbo

no, not a piece of Colchester's Victorian landmark, but a fragment from a huge steel vessel designed to contain the explosion of the first nuclear device at the Trinity site some 35 miles southeast of Soccoro, NM.

     Jumbo was 25 feet long,12 feet in diameter, and weighed 214 tons; its steel walls were 14 inches thick. The Historic marker then states the container wasn't used in the tests but was 800 feet from ground zero. It was used in later experiments which blew the ends of the container out . . .

I came home from Albuquerque the same way I went so I could visit the Very Large Array again a little later in the day . . . but the sky was still an unremitting blue but the azimuth and elevation of the dishes were changed and changing again whilst I was there.