TRINITY: White Sands and Sodom
Green glass was created by the detonation of the first atomic bomb at White Sands, N.M. (1945). Physicist Robert Oppenheimer called “Trinity.”
Archeologist Steven Collins has researched Tel el Hammam, Jordan. There is green glass (“trinitite”) on pottery and bricks. It was like the city was churned in a “blender” under searing heat (over 2,0000 C). There is extreme human skeletal disarticulation.
Collins believes the site is Sodom as recorded in Genesis 19.
The Bible records that sister cities Zebolim, Admah and Gomorrah were also destroyed in that catastrophe (1900 B.C.).
The Tunguska airburst of an asteroid/comet in eastern Siberia (1908) has similar features.
Patriarch Abraham negotiated with GOD. “If there were 50 righteous would Sodom be spared?” But there were not even 10 righteous.
These “exceedingly wicked” cities had: 1) no justice or mercy for the common person, 2) very corrupt judges, 3) cruelty/torture, 4) over indulgence in food and fleshy desires, 5) used children for adult pleasures, and 6) ungratefulness. They had been rescued from capture 15 years earlier.
“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” (Robert Burns, 1784).
By the 1950s, physicist Edward Teller and others considered making hydrogen bombs thousands of times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Soviets did make a “beast bomb” Tsar Bomba (1961) that almost destroyed the bomber that dropped it!
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12).
JIM PEARL
Hayden