The entire notion of creating a national park dedicated to the history of nuclear weapons seems completely out of sync with the purpose of parks. The National Parks Service, for example, explains in its own criteria for establishing national parks that, "hunting, mining, and other consumptive uses such as grazing are generally prohibited in National Parks". Well what about nuclear weapons designing, nuclear waste dumping, high explosives testing, and biological warfare experimentation? What about planning for and manufacturing the weapons for the annihilation of entire ecosystems? Is that allowed in National Parks? It will be if this plan moves forward.
And more than anything, they understand that reclaiming the past and re-polishing the bomb's image by dedicating a National Park to it will serve their aims today, aims that include pushing ahead with highly controversial and historically unprecedented investments in new nuclear weapons.
Los Alamos is, after all, currently undertaking a construction program that is larger in dollar terms than the entire Manhattan Project in New Mexico, all to build a new plutonium bomb pit factory.
NOTE: Early Disneyland had a MONSANTO home of the future, with all sorts of fun gadgets for 8 years old to wonder through. Just think of the fun kids can have imagining what it feels like to Erase Their Enemies at a Nuke National Park?
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