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Congress considering measure to preserve atomic labs as National Parks

Global Politics

America’s nuclear heritage has few sites open to the public. But since the Cold War ended, several sites have fallen out of active use. After narrowly avoiding being torns down, there’s a movement to open them to the public as National Parks.

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