CHAPTER 10: TRINITY -THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING PART 3
By MARK HENDRICKS - as told to Steve Douglass Note - this story was compiled from many conversations with "Mark Hendricks" but written by Steve Douglass. I know it's sounds cliché but you had to be there to understand what a universe-shattering event the detonation was. It's rather hard to describe how beautiful and how soul-shattering and humbling the experience of setting off of an atom bomb is. There was nothing to compare it to. Even the enormous stack of TNT we had set as a gauge for the test did nothing to prepare us for the experience of Trinity. The radio kept the beat with the steady pulse of the timing signal broadcast from the second SCR299 truck (at South +10,000) and the voice countdown to bomb detonation only added to the incredible tension. Oddly enough, between the pulses I could hear what sounded like a symphony playing in the background, wavering in and out like ghostly orchestra providing a eerie soundtrack. Spooky, but I instantly recognized it...
