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By Shannon Dininny / The Bulletin
November 14, 2011
YAKIMA, Wash. — In a remote pocket of the inland Pacific Northwest, World War II weapons production and storage built a booming economy that continued through the Cold War. The region flourished even as efforts shifted in the 1980s toward cleanup and disposal of chemical agents and radioactive....
