Rocky Mountain Arsenal
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Rocky Mountain Arsenal, south entrance.
（photo 1960） The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado.
The site was completed December 1942, operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure in 1992.
Much of the site is now protected as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, the U.S. Army began looking for land to create a chemical manufacturing center.
Located just north of Denver, in Commerce City and close to the Stapleton Airport, the U.S. Army purchased 20,000 acres.
The location was ideal, not only because of the proximity to the airport, but because of the geographic features of the site, it was less likely to be attacked.
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal manufactured chemical weapons including mustard gas, napalm, white phosphorus, lewisite, chlorine gas, and sarin.
In the early 1960s, the U.S. Army began to lease out its facilities to private companies to manufacture pesticides.
In the early 1980s the site was selected as a Superfund site and the cleanup process began.
In the mid-1980s, wildlife, including endangered species, moved into the space and the land became a protected park.
The environmental movement began in the United States in the 1960-1970s.
The U.S. Congress responded to the movement in 1980 with the creation of the Comprehensive Environmental ...