Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I realize we have many contaminated areas all across the US, and that some of these resulted from military applications, but I'd have to see some sources before I'd be willing to believe the national parks were chosen for that reason. We have plenty of military reserves around the country, and most of the national parks don't actually restrict peoples movement. Further, all the national parks enshrine a unique geological, and often biological, area. If they are actually covert military reserves, that would suggest that the military was seeking out locations of unique geologic interest as locations for military testing. That seems improbable.