The anniversary of the first explosion of an atomic bomb is coming up next month. The Trinity Test happened at White Sands on July 16, 1945. A new movie about it, Oppenheimer, is set to premier July 21. Recent archaeological finds tell us White Sands may have been the site of North America’s first human culture. Footprints discovered there could be 10,000 to 20,000 years old. This would mean that our first culture appeared in the same place as our latest (we hope not our last), the Nuclear Age culture. With this in mind, I penned the following, a fictional piece for Billion Worlds.
What a fascinating story. It certainly creates a picture of the many things of the past that are unknown!