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The first nuclear bomb test was given the code name Trinity. The site of 9/11 became known as Ground Zero. https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test.aspx > The Trinity Site is now part of the White Sands Missile Range and is owned by the Department of Defense. > Ground zero is marked by an obelisk made of black lava rock, with an attached commemorative sign. A 17-foot tall cross was located in the rubble of the World Trade Center, following 9/11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_cross https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/collection-symbols-forged-wtc-steel The worker who found it was Frank Silecchia. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/13/911-ground-zero-museum-cross-world-trade-center/8907003/ > "It was a sign,'' Frank Silecchia would recall, "a sign that God hadn't deserted us." > On the second Sunday after the attacks, he came upon a man in a Franciscan's brown robe giving communion to cops, firefighters and hardhats. > This was Brian Jordan, who'd lost his friend and fellow Franciscan, Mychal Judge, in the attack. The ADL supported keeping the cross. https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2011-09-12/ty-article/adl-okays-world-trade-center-cross/0000017f-f87f-d2d5-a9ff-f8ffcb320000 Don DeLillo's "Underworld" has a cross on the cover in front of the Twin Towers. It was published in 1997. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11761.Underworld In another book of his, "Players", the wife works at a grief management firm in the World Trade Center. It was published in 1977. https://www.enotes.com/topics/players > She wastes her energy working for the Grief Management Council, an agency that specializes in discovering euphemisms for the realities of suffering and death.