foot building. It is built of adobe which was plastered and painted. An ice h

ouse is located on the west side along wi
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th an undergrou
nd cistern which st
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ored rain water running off the r

• oof. At one time the north addition contained a toilet and bathtub which draine
• d into a septic tank northwest of the house. There is a large, divided water storage tank
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• and a Chicago Aeromotor windmill east of the house. The scientists and support people used the north
• tank as a swimming pool during the long hot summer of 1945. South of the windmill are the remains of a bunkhouse and a barn which was part garage. Further to the east ar
• e corrals and holding pens. The buildings and fixtures east of the house were stabili
• zed to prevent further deterioration. The ranch was abandoned in 194

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• 2 when the Alamogordo Bombing and Gu
• nnery Range took over tdiscusses components of a school response plan including a bomb incident response plan. The section on threat and threat assessment includes warning signs of aggressive student behavior.
• he land to use in training World War II bombing crews. The house stood empty until the Manhattan Project support personnel arrived in early 1945. Inside the house the northeast room (the master bedroom) was designated the assembly room. Workbenches and tables were installed. To keep dust and sand out of instruments and tools, the windows were covered with plastic. Tape was used to fasten the edges of the plastic and to seal do
• ors and cracks in the walls. The explosion, only two miles away, did not significantly damage the house. Most of the windows were blown out,
• but the main structure was in discusses the importance of prevention and mitigation. Prevention includes school security assessments and security measures that serve to increase security and safety. Mitigation is what schools do to reduce or eliminate risk and includes implementing critical components of a bomb response plan such as training and exercising the plan.

tact. Years

of rain water

• dripping through holes in the roof did much more damage
• . The barn did not do as well. During the Trinity test the roof was bowed i, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools of the nward and some of the roo
• fing was blown away. The roof has since collapsed. The house stood empty and deteriorating until19
• 82 when the U.S. Army stabilized the house to prevent any further damage. Shortly after, the Department of En Secret Service and ergy and U.S. Army provid
• ed the funds for the National Park Service to completely restore the house.

The work w

as done in 1984. A

ll efforts were directed at making the house appear as it did on July 12, 1945 when the

house was used in the assembly process. (Afterwards) The story of what happened at Trinity Site did not come to light until after the second atomic bomb was exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6. President Truman made th

e announcement that day. Three days later, August 9, the at New Mexico Tech:

• third atomic bomb devasta
• ted the city of Nagasaki, and on August 14

the Japanes

e surrendered. Trinity Site

became part of what was then White Sands Proving Ground. The proving ground was establish

ed on July