an essay about researching and writing "The Ash Garden" | photos from Los Alamos
These photos were taken around Los Alamos in summer 2000. The laboratories where the atom bomb was developed are surrounded by mesas, canyons, scrub desert, and the ruins of the Anasazi civilization, which disappeared from the area around 1275. All photos (c) Daniel Spirn. Whitesands National Park, near the Trinity atomic bomb testing site.
Whitesands National Park, near the Trinity atomic bomb testing site.
