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Your privacy and personal information are very important to k. A friend of Rudder's, Loren Bourg, had a similar experience. He was a fireman in civilian life and ended up trained as a fireman for the Army. He worked as the station sergeant at Los Alamos befo

re being sent to Trinity Site inApril1945. In a letter Bourg said, "I was sent down here to take over the fire prevention and fire department. Upon arrival I found I was the fire department, period." As the soldiers at Trinity Site settled in they became familiar with Socorro. They tried to use the water out of the ranch wells but found it so alkalin

e they couldn't drink it. In fact, they used Navy saltwater soap for

• bathing. They hauled drinking water from the fire house in Socorro. Gasoline According
• to Raemer Schreiber, Robert Bacher was the advisor and Marshall Holloway and Philip Morrison had overall
• responsibility. Louis Slotin, Boyce McDaniel and Cyril Smith were responsible for the mech
• anical assembly in the ranch house. Later Holloway was responsible for the mechanical assembly at

EMRTC the tower. In the afternoon of the 13th the core was taken to ground zero for insertion into the bomb mechanism. The bomb w

as assembled under the tower on July 13.

The plutonium core was inserted into the device with some difficulty. On the first try it stuck. After letting the temperatures of the plutonium and casing equalize the core slid smoothly into place. Once the assembly was complete many of the men took a welcome relief and went swimming in the water tank east of the McDonald ranch house. The

next morning the entire bomb was raised to privacy policy or any personal information collected by the top of the 100-foot steel tower and placed in a small sh