Did We Learn From The Past??

Two days out of the year..yes, year, the White Sands Missle Range opens its gates for the public to view a piece of history. The first Saturday in April and October.
This area is known as the "Trinity Site". Brief lesson(copying out of the flyer we got)...
The story of the Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June 1942. The project was given overall responsibility for designing and building an atomic bomb. Three large facilities were constructed. At Oak Ridge, Tenn., the scientists isolated the uranium 235. Hanford, Wash. became the new home for nuclear reactors producing plutonium. And Los Alamos (White Sands)was established to build the bomb.
Long story short (too late) it was here that the first atomic bomb was built and tested officially at 5:29:45 a.m mountain war time.
The pictures that I attached have to be put into context of what precautions are taken today with any kind of radioactive stuff. Lets just say that I don't think the men in that area had an inkling of what power this stuff truly had.
Pictue 5: This is the monument that was built to commemorate the testing of the atomic bomb.
Picture 4: There was a 100 foot steel tower that was built to suspend the bomb from. This is what is left of the tower and the only reason this is left is because it was underground and encased in concrete. The rest of the tower vaporized.
Picture 3: This is trinitite. This is what became of the sand around the blast area. There are theories as to how this formed, but obviously nobody knows for sure. Imagine the whole area covered in this. They have since cleared the area and buried the majority of it, but little pieces can be found.
Picture 2: When looking at this picture, imagine all the precautions taken today..this is the house where the actual bomb was assembled. The door on the right hand side led into a "clean room" that was sealed off to the outside elements and that is where everything was put together. That is either ignorance, stupidity, or trust in everyone around you not to mess up thier part!!
So, the determination that I try to make is this, "Was this a success or a failure" and I come up with--both. Yes, we did harness the power of the atom, but at what cost over the course of time?
The first picture is some barbary sheep that were by the roadside. We thought it was cool to see them.