# Uranium in false teeth unhealthy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 21, 2004, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373 "2004-10-21T09:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373/61 "2004-10-23T21:06:42Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > [Read it and weep.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division) > > But you’re avoiding the question I put to you. > > Yes or no: do you believe that every member of the UN believes your claim? Answer this first, and I’ll answer the questions you posed of me. That’s only fair. Oh come on now, le’s not get sidetracked into a discussion of how the UN works (or doesn’t) and whther or no a report accepted by the General Assembly “really” means it was accepted by the Membership as a whole. Completely pointless and has nothing to do with the main debate. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373/62 "2004-10-27T00:02:06Z")
Can somebody please provide a cite concerning “the safe that got the E-ticket ride during the Trinity test?” The only “safe” I’m aware of was _Jumbo_ which was going to house the _Gadget_. The idea was “Hey, what if the bomb fizzles? We got two billion dollars bucks of dust scattered all over the desert." So they created this colossal container (100 tons?) which could hold the conventional explosion and allow someone with a broom to sweep out the Pu :dubious: if it failed. They dropped the idea later on (I don’t remember the reason), and parked the container within a few hundred yards of the tower. When _Gadget_ was detonated, there was some damage, but Jumbo was still intact. Could it be that _Jumbo_ is being confused with the carelessly misplaced safe? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of nuclear blast powered ballistic object (other then the rather dubious man-hole cover launched into space from an underground nuclear explosion.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373/63 "2004-10-27T00:45:05Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Can somebody please provide a cite concerning “the safe that got the E-ticket ride during the Trinity test?” The only “safe” I’m aware of was _Jumbo_ which was going to house the _Gadget_. The idea was “Hey, what if the bomb fizzles? We got two billion dollars bucks of dust scattered all over the desert." So they created this colossal container (100 tons?) which could hold the conventional explosion and allow someone with a broom to sweep out the Pu :dubious: if it failed. They dropped the idea later on (I don’t remember the reason), and parked the container within a few hundred yards of the tower. When _Gadget_ was detonated, there was some damage, but Jumbo was still intact. > > Could it be that _Jumbo_ is being confused with the carelessly misplaced safe? > > This is the first time I’ve ever heard of nuclear blast powered ballistic object (other then the rather dubious man-hole cover launched into space from an underground nuclear explosion.) No. “Jumbo” weighed 214 tons. [SEE HERE](http://www.kilroywashere.org/004-Pages/Trinity/Trinity.html) Too big by far. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373/64 "2004-10-27T00:47:27Z")
Actually, there were dozens upon dozens of bits of kit apart from Jumbo in the vicinity of the Trinity test. However, the reason I’d also be wary of **Bosda** ’s assertion is that most of those have been accounted for. _The Trinity Experiments_ (1997, WSMR Archaeological Report No. 97-15) is the detailed survey of both what was in place, what was found after the blast and what has survived. To the thoroughness of tracing of tracing wires and individual metal stakes. There’s nothing that corresponds to a safe being flung several miles. There were substantial instrument cabinets relatively close to the tower that did survive, but those that were recovered seem to have been found _in situ_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uranium-in-false-teeth-unhealthy/270373.md?page=3)