Anti-Nuclear Groups Protest Proposed Manhattan Project Park

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http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/07/19/19greenwire-anti-nuclear-groups-protest-proposed-manhattan-52795.html

Anti-Nuclear Groups Protest Proposed Manhattan Project Park

By JOHN MCARDLE of Greenwire
Published: July 19, 2011


A plan to create a multi-state national park dedicated to the top secret project to develop an atomic bomb during World War II has drawn the ire of anti-nuclear groups that believe the government shouldn't be in the business of celebrating the creation of a weapon of mass destruction.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week offered his support for the establishment of a Manhattan Project National Park, and top leaders on Capitol Hill have already vowed to move a plan developed by the National Park Service through Congress in the coming months. But Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Maryland-based Nuclear Information Resource Service, said today that the effort runs contrary to the goals of the national park system.

"National parks are national treasurers, and glorifying a weapon of mass destruction is certainly not among the purposes of a national park," Mariotte said.

Greg Mello, of the Los Alamos Study Group in New Mexico, shares those concerns. more

:crazy:

We're $14 trillion+ in debt and national and state parks are being closed all over the country. And Salazar and friends propose this! Insanity! :crazy:

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1. We are going to create a National Park honoring the Manhattan

Project when we are so broke that we have to cut social security? Shame, Shame, Shame.