Jumbo

Socorro, NM - Heritage Park Area -Jumbo - Responsibility for the design of a containment vessel for an unsuccessful explosion, known as "Jumbo", was assigned to the Los Alamos Laboratory's X-2A Section. The bomb would be placed into the heart of Jumbo, and if the bomb's detonation was unsuccessful, the outer walls of Jumbo would not be breached, making it possible to recover the bomb's plutonium. - Delivered in May 1945, Jumbo was 10 feet (3.05 m) in diameter and 25 feet (7.62 m) long with walls 14 inches (356 mm) thick, and weighed 214 short tons (191 long tons; 194 t). A special train brought it from Barberton, Ohio, to the siding at Pope, where it was loaded on a large trailer and towed 25 miles (40 km) across the desert by crawler tractors. At the time, it was the heaviest item ever shipped by rail. [Wiki] - This piece of Jumbo is a souvenir of the world’s first nuclear explosion.

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