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Article: Ways we see no evil at Groud Zero.(visit to Trinity Site, New Mexico)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 10, 1996
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The day before Easter I attended open house at Trinity Site, N.M., where, on July 16, 1945, the first atom bomb splintered the sky.
On Good Friday, my friends and I drove for seven hours from Tucson, Ariz., to Alamogordo, N.M., then called it quits for the night. Eighty-five miles southeast of Trinity Site, the small town of 35,000 boasts a giant "Jesus Christ Is Lord over Alamogordo" billboard. Residents are, as they used to say, kindly. It's the sort of place where you still can talk a motel manager into letting several people cram into a small room at little extra charge.
It was late when we checked into a dim room that looked like a set for a bad movie, ...