Aftermath

Documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of enduring terror & memory: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for undetonated WW1 mines; outside Stalingrad that was, in 1941, a cauldron of destruction & is today a field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950s; in Vietnam, where a nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created biol. & psychol. devastation; in Kuwait, the task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining life after war.