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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: June 27, 2018
Caption: Rocky Mountain Arsenal: North Plants
Additional Description: North Plants was built in the early 1950s in response to the Cold War. This bleak, highly-secured facility is where thousands upon thousands of bomb casings were loaded with nerve agent during the 1950s. It is also where these same bomb casings were unloaded as part of the nerve agent detoxification process during the 1970s. Some workers here literally spent the first half of their 30-to-40-year career creating these grim munitions and the second half of their career dismantling the same munitions.
Submitted: August 8, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p439017
File Size: 0.872 Megabytes

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