It is not the grass growing on the sand dunes
or the way the beach recedes into the distance

Spaulding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia

a kind of obsession with certain names and dates

And now the revulsion that it is likely that techniques developed to be used against spies were used against a woman artist

How CIA Director Richard Helms destroyed the records that revealed the names and circumstances

Jim Pomeroy, whose works, 'Apollo JEST', for instance, satirized NASA programs

The incongruous presence of so much atomic energy research on the Berkeley campus

the Oak Ridge Army Hospital