JUPITERASC
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Hi JupiterAsc, While you are checking out "The Vedas", there are other things to check. I really am opposed to religious god like status being given to nuclear bombs by metaphor, symbolism is very dangerous in this field of study!
"If the radiance of a thousand Suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds. The Bhagavad-Gita"
Some may say, it was only a test! Why name it "Trinity?"
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html Another test was called "The Smiling Buddha"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha
When this type of symbolism is used in tests, you are likely to see the same type of symbolism when they are used for real, which isn't the role of religion.
The 6th August 1945 is highly suspect, it is the feast day of the transfiguration of Christ, when he turned into a blinding white light,... after a CLOUD appeared..."This is my Son whome i love etc etc."
Truman had a "Little Boy" too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/transfiguration-of-jesus-christ-faq.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus
Why indeed deliberately use religious symbolism to name weapons of mass destruction?
And then there were the 'Sandstone' nuclear tests in 1948
Nuclear weapons were developed during World War II by the Manhattan Project, which created a network of production facilities, and the weapons research and design laboratory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The objectives of the Sandstone series of tests were to:
test nuclear cores and initiators;
improve the theory and knowledge of implosion type weapons;
test levitated cores;
test composite cores; and
determine the most economic designs in terms of efficient use of fissionable material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandstone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrAqIlDWpaA&feature=relmfu Operation Sandstone - United States Nuclear Weapons Tests in 1948
Trinity Shot - 1945 United States Atomic Weapons Test (Silent Film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY-h-y_RL3o&feature=relmfu