I’ve always found the use of the name Housatonic for the nuclear test very interesting as the name itself creates a number of connections. There’s the William Cullen Bryant poem “To the Housatonic at Stockbridge” with that line: “Ah! there’s a restive ripple…” and the image of ripples moving through the river, which feels weirdly on-the-nose given the “Ripple” terminology tied to that test hardware. Then there’s the USS Housatonic itself, famous for being sunk in 1864 by the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley (one of the earliest, most consequential submarine moments in history). And even in modern pop-history, Clive Cussler’s NUMA was involved in the long search that ultimately found the Hunley wreck in 1995, tying the Housatonic story into treasure hunting and underwater recovery culture as well.