Landmark Proposal:    A Nuclear Test Site Memorial.  (Trinity Site, New Mexico. USA.  36.27N 105.40W)



Of the 1,200+ nuclear tests USA conducted, the Trinity Site in New Mexico was one of the very first.  Between it and the ghost town Ajo (an exhausted mining site), nothing will grow properly for a long future.  This landmark is a burial to grief a dead earth, filling out pockets of destroyed land over nearly 100 km² with flat white concrete slab. 

Visitors are invited to walk onto the memorial piece.  However, it will be an extremely unpleasant task. The hot desert sun strikes onto the concrete, while the pure blankness suggests no end.  This memorial is a super sized torture/punishment device; subsequent generations will receive a glimpse of the extends of devastation we managed.  Seen from above the earth, this memorial is a reminder of our prevailing wits over the planet, and a display of our willfulness and greed.  This white filling is like a visible scar tissue that will hopefully heal, or at least fade, over a long enough timeline.