I am heading over to NM and plan to see it there. One of my aunts was an Army nurse stationed in Los Alamos as the school nurse during the Manhattan Project. She never said much about it except a famous physicist whose name I wont mention here had a son who was still wetting his pants at school at the age of ten.
From 1972 through the mid 1980s I was a staff member at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), during my time there renamed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). A few of the old timers were still around when I started working there and at a wine tasting I heard quite a story from one of them about the test of "the gadget" in the desert near Alamogordo (Trinity Site) which is open to the public twice a year. At one time one could buy a paperweight globe containing a small piece of fused sand from the the test shot. Maybe still can. I don't know. Many if not most people from the townsite went up Sawyer's Hill (now the ski slope) very early, while it was still dark, the morning of the test. The shot did not go off at the time planned. The crowd gloomily waited for a while then started to disperse to go home. All of a sudden the sky lit up as bright as noontime and they all started to cheer as the gadget had functioned!
Trinity Site - White Sands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
When I lived in Los Alamos Clement and Benner was the only store in town at which one could buy clothing. They sold a T-shirt with a rendition of the Trinity blast on its front. I still have mine somewhere.
The government built housing as Los Alamos had been a boy's boarding school comprising a few log homes (known as Bathtub Row during the Manhattan Project) and Fuller Lodge (I stayed there a couple nights in 1963 while working part time at Kirkland AFB's Weapons Laboratory) while in college. Our group went up to Los Alamos to conduct an experiment. Anyway, the project was so secret the plans for the apartments were designated with "LA" which the architects interpreted as Los Angeles. Ergo, they were hardly insulated; Los Alamos is at over 7,000 feet above sea level and believe me it gets very cold there. OK, I have rambled on enough.