“Here the atomic bomb is developed. People in Los Alamos lead almost normal lives. Residents have no unexpected visitors, no graveyards, no unemployment, and no real-estate taxes, but they do have a bountiful crop of babies. By showing passes, they are free to leave the reservation as they please; yet some complain of feeling shut in.”
I Don't Get It 
Sardonic.
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Early National Geographic seems to have cornered the market on sardonic. And condescending, I find.
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It was an interesting sort of innocence. Today we seem to know better, but the bombs are still around in the thousands!
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Nat Geo should stick to pictures.
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Ha!
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What did that famous resident Robert Oppenheimer have to say? Oh yeah, “Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.”
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What a downer, that Bob.
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