Remembering the Bomb

Twice a year they let the masses in.  Now we all can experience ground zero at the Trinity Site.  But, be warned:  it is a truly harrowing encounter.

 

All photographs by B.Held.
See more photographs in my Remembering the Bomb set on flickr.

"We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."

—J. Robert Oppenheimer