Glass parking lot

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Glass parking lot is a reference to an area of sand after a nuclear bomb is detonated above it. The expression rose out of nuclear tests in the U.S. state of New Mexico during the Manhattan Project. The heat from the bombs caused the sand near the fireball to melt and become a light-green, glass-like substance later dubbed "Trinitite".

The phrase is often employed as a proposal for using nuclear weapons or another extreme military response to foreign aggression. The same phrase is also used cynically to criticize such hardline mentality as hawkish and simplistic, and is often suggested facetiously as an answer to mundane problems.

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• Trinity test (White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 16 July 1945)