McDonald Ranch House
Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, NM

The world’s first nuclear weapon was assembled in an adobe and wood house, two miles from where it would detonate, in a remote New Mexico desert.

Remarkably, the McDonald Ranch House stood up decently to the bomb’s terrifying blast on July 16, 1945, and after years of solitude, the structure was restored and made a national park location.

This ranch house window faces the Little Burro Mountain to the south, offering a simple pleasant view in a direction opposite from Ground Zero.

I suspect Oppenheimer, Feynman, Fermi, and other scientists attached to this project may have appreciated the view from this window a time or two.