“Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project, and the Birth of the Atomic Age.”<\/a> We definitely got our money’s worth. This is a really nice piece of writing, with some fascinating factoids about the bomb and the Cold War and some lurid local color, namely in the form of Ed Grothus, a nuclear bomb engineer (retired and repentant) who now runs The Black Hole, a surplus store\/nuclear junk shop (in a decomissioned Piggly-Wiggly). You’ve got to see the video of Ed giving Josh a little tour of the place. It’s a riot (in a Dr. Strangelove sorta way). <\/p>\n I’d say this little experiment in Net-funded journalism was a roaring success. Where to now, Josh? I’ve got some extra whuffie in my account with your name on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week, we brought you a story about Josh Ellis, a Net journalist who was passing the virtual hat to do a story on Los Alamos\/Trinity Test Site (which is only open to the public two times a year). Pay Josh’s way and he offered to write a piece, take a butt-load of pics, and … <\/p>\n
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