Padre.

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Padre. Padre Island. Texas, USA. Barrier island Gulf of Mexico.

Don't think Alamagordo. Think Padre Island? Atomic weapon testing WW2. The BOMB.

Indeed, this was a new one on me!

"70 years ago, Padre Island was nearly the site of nuclear weapons testing in the United States"

From the San Antonio Express-News | Chris Eudaily | 2015.

"In July 1945 the United States government tested the world's first atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico, but that historic event could have just as easily happened in South Texas."

"According to Mike Cox of TexasEscapes.com, Padre Island was on the shortlist to welcome the atomic weapons age."

"At the time, Padre Island had a few things going for it, according to Cox: Early in the war the island was off limits to civilians and the area was already being used as a bombing range, plus the area has a bustling Naval Air Station, busy rail yards and a deep water port."

"It's hard to imagine that this popular beach destination could just have easily been the site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, so we did the next best thing."

Comments:

* First atomic test Alamagordo New Mexico think a "gadget" rather than a droppable atomic bomb. Test of the plutonium device Trinity Site really an experiment.

* Transporting the "gadget" across the USA nearly two-thousand miles [over three thousand kilometers] to Padre Island too hazardous from the security standpoint and too close to a highly populated area.

See also the embedded slide show. Detonations of an atomic bomb [not the Trinity gadget] vicinity Padre Island and Corpus Christi simulations interesting. Detonations of atomic munitions magnitudes beyond that of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

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