Educating the Public on Explosives Safety

摘要

Since our nations founding, our military forces have conducted munitions activities on Department of Defense (DOD) properties throughout the United States to maintain readiness to defend our national interests. Munitions-related activities included live-fire training or testing, production, demilitarization and disposal. When DOD no longer needed these properties, they were cleaned up according to the practices and standards of the time, prior to being transferred to the public. News articles post-World War Ⅱ, for instance, describe an intensive program to remove munitions and to inform the public of the potential hazards, especially with taking munitions as souvenirs.