Answer the following question in 3-4 LUMPULU UT
Describe Jumbo and the test strategy for the first test at White Sands.
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Jumbo and the test strategy for the first test at White Sands:
Trinity was the very first nuclear device blast code name. The U.S. Army ran the drill at 5:29 a.m. The Manhattan Project was signed on 16 July 1945.
The test was done on what would become the USAAF Alamogordo Bombardment and Gunnery Range, which now reside in the White Sands Missile Range (which is situated in the Jornada Del Muerto desert about 56 kilometres to the southeast of Scores.
Anxieties of a fizzle contributed to creating a structure called the Jumbo steel container, which could hold plutonium, and was allowed to retrieve it, but Jumbo wasn't being used.
Originally, Jumbo was to be tested. Instead, a smaller bomb was detonated and instruments were calibrated using other small explosions. Jumbo got its name because it was 25 feet long, 10 feet in diameter and weighed 214 tons. Considering the size of Jumbo, testing it at White Sands could have been a disaster.
