Funny timing - I'm reading Topographies, a book of essays by Stephen Benz, and just last night I read a poignant one about visiting a WWII-era atomic testing si

Funny timing - I'm reading Topographies, a book of essays by Stephen Benz, and just last night I read a poignant one about visiting a WWII-era atomic testing site in the New Mexico desert. Looks like this link gets you to it in Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=PnfnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=PT91&dq=stephen+benz+alamogordo&source=bl&ots=ZRswlt3tk6&sig=ACfU3U28xV4dZp5-Qsl54ZwKleD9b9mbBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVz6SGw_TyAhUPUt8KHf9cAnsQ6AF6BAguEAM#v=onepage&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=PnfnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=P... It's remarkable how world-changing (and potentially world-ending) this technology is and how infrequently most of us think about it.