A museum tries to make sense of the bomb.
Grave Site
The National Atomic Museum
1905 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM
atomicmuseum.com
How is a nuclear bomb like an ancient African battle elephant? On a recent visit to the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, NM, I found hidden among the predictable exhibits -- metal casings identical to those used in the Little Boy and Fat Man devices dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, films of mushroom clouds expanding over atomic- and hydrogen-bomb test sites, photos of Robert Oppenheimer and the gang at Los Alamos, CA -- a reproduction of a 16th-century Flemish tapestry with a placard beside it that tried to answer this riddle.
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