“Beginning in the early 1960's, history began to rhyme once again when the Department of Energy and the military began setting off nuclear weapons in the desert. Mushroom clouds lit the skies, and fallout fell like snow. The explosions were called tests, but were nonetheless full-fledged dress rehearsals for Armageddon, perhaps more. Among the desert's longtime residents, the difference between "nuclear testing" and "nuclear war" was far from self-evident.” HistoryNuclear Weapons Free WorldNevada History Book:Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Source: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
“I’ve seen it all in Nevada, Kansas before that, and the War of Northern Aggression before that. People do all sorts of nasty things. And while I used to believe that there was something profoundly wrong about the human condition—sin passed on from the first man and that only the grace of God in Jesus Christ could make everything right, the standard explanation in churches Mormon to Methodist—it didn’t take me long to learn that Christians and non-Christians, women and men, young and old were all capable of doing the worse things a human being might imagine, and then some. From my upcoming novel, BATHHOUSE ROW, (available this fall).” Western FictionHot SpringsNevada HistoryBathhouse RowW W Ronin Author:Gregg Edwards Townsley