Albuquerque, NM

What do you think of when you think of Albequerque, New Mexico? Probably the Balloon Festival, or Southwestern cuisine, or Indian art, or….. I bet you don’t think of Atom Bombs!!!!


So here we go, Albuquerque’s own >>>>









Little Boy: first atom bomb; dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945; immediately killed 100,000 people (+/- 30,000); length 10 feet; 28 inch diameter; weighed 8,900 pounds; yield 13 kilotons; Uranium 235

Fat Man: second atom bomb; dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945; immediately killed more than 45,000 people; length 10 feet and 8 inches; 60 inch diameter; weighed 10,800 pounds; yield 20 kilotons; Plutonium 239


While in the area we also had…….yes, that is snow, about 4 inches after it was all down. The city didn’t get anything but rain, but we were staying at nearly 7,000 feet, some 2,000 feet higher than the city.

Next stop…….Oklahoma…..bet y’all can’t wait for that.