In Service to
Our Country
The Weldon Spring area has made vital contributions to the national defense of this country. During World War II the U.S. Department of the Army operated an ordnance works, which produced almost 750,000,000 pounds of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and Dinitrotoluene (DNT). The ordnance works was the largest manufacturer of explosives in the country and possibly the world during the war.
In 1955, the U.S. Department of the Army transferred some 200 acres to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for construction of the Weldon Spring Uranium Feed Materials Plant. It was during the operation of the Uranium Feed Materials Plant from 1958 to 1966 that some of the initial steps in processing uranium that entered into the nuclear weapons and fuel cycles took place.
Local Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, and National Guard units have used portions of the area for field training, a use that will continue into the future.
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