A blurb from the back of a Science Digest from 1954. It refers to "men who joust with dangerous gases and radioactive particles in atomic research at Mound Laboratory, which Monsanto Chemical Co. operates as Miamisburg, Ohio for the Atomic Energy Commission." Although it was classified at the time, Mound Laboratory primarily made plutonium detonators for nuclear weapons. By 1993, the Department of Energy closed it down, affecting over 2,000 peoples' jobs. Afterwards, the primary activity at the disused plant was nuclear cleanup.