Talk:Rice, California

Atomic Test?
Tagged dubious -- Groves assumed control of the Manhattan Project in August 1942 and by November 1942 Patton was invading North Africa. True, he spent time in California, but this was simply to train his troops. As Groves was getting a grip on the Manhattan Project, the consideration of where to test the weapon was long down the road. Given the proximity of the Colorado River, the Colorado River Aqueduct (which Patton tapped to water his troops), Parker, CA, and the Colorado River Indian Reservation, it is doubtful that they'd use Rice for an A-test as the prevailing winds are Eastward towards those areas. Moreover, the Leslie Groves and Manhattan Project articles don't mention any consideration of using Rice AAF. Groves himself was known as being cantankerous, perhaps on a par with Patton. Finally, the mention of this decision is based on a single website, which does not give a source for the contention. Gregory Walker, the provider of this information, is of unknown academic status. I know this page is not watched by many, but come a month or so, without better WP:V, I going to delete this A Bomb stuff.--S. Rich (talk) 05:26, 9 November 2011 (UTC)


 * "Auto trips were made to the regions north and south of Grants and Thoreau, the Tularosa basin, the Jornada del Muerto Valley, and the desert training area. Aerial surveys were made at low altitude by one or another of the group, K. Bainbridge, R. W. Henderson, Maj. W. A. Stevens, and Maj. P. deSilva, over the same areas. The choices finally narrowed to either the Jornada del Muerto region in the northwest corner of the Alamogordo Bombing Range or the desert training area north of Rice, CA." Kenneth T. Bainbridge, "Trinity" ([LA-6300-H](http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-06300-H)), May 1976 (reprinting a 1947 report). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.122.204.65 (talk) 20:12, 5 June 2015 (UTC)