Open space vs. safety: The debate goes nuclear at eager-to-please Rocky Flats

Open space vs. safety: The debate goes nuclear at eager-to-please Rocky Flats

Story first appeared in: Jan and Jennie Hrdlicka crank pedals up to the new Indiana Street bridge entrance to Rocky Flats with a sense of history that’s well above average.  They know the wildlife refuge they are about to enter made atomic bomb parts until 1989, if not all the details of how Rocky Flats as a weapons plant produced 70,000 plutonium explosives, each holding the power of the Hiroshima inferno.  They know that a mile to the west, j…