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The Ordnance Preparation Facility is a double bay building designed especially for ordnance operations. This facility is equipped to handle such operations as explosives loading for research and development of munitions, rocket motor preparation, assembly of explosive components, remote disassembly of ordnance items, and up/down loading and priming/depriming fixed ammunition.

war in the Pacific but also ushered the world into the atomic age. All life on Earth has been touched by the event, which took place here. The 51 ,500-acre area was declared a national historic landmark in 1975. The landmark includes base camp, where