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Trinity Test

It worked, and, in a few millionths of a second, science became more powerful than all the age-old nation-states

The Jornada Del Muerto, the Dead Man’s Trail, a waterless seventy-five-mile stretch of alkaline desert in southern New Mexico north of Alamogordo, was named in an age when transportation depended on water and grass, rather than refined hydrocarbons.

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