I spent the fall semester of my sabbatical working at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico on developing a model for a sheared granular fault gauge system. Here is just a quick nerd tourist pic I got to take while living out west. The Trinity test site is only opened up to the public twice a year, since it sits in an active missile range, and all activity must be shut down. (They only open on the first Saturdays of April and October.) There were a handful of protesters (“Downwinders”) demonstrating just outside the entrance, and a HUGE number of visitors. There isn’t much there, but it’s easy to find lots of trinitite on the ground, which signs will tell you IS ILLEGAL to keep.
Pro tip: do not just drive to Alamogordo thinking you’ll get to see the test site. Check out the map on the link below. This is the west and distances are VAST!
Here’s info:
https://www.wsmr.army.mil/Trinity/Pages/Home.aspx