American University traded its grounds for Army infrastructure and accepted buried chemical weapons

Evidence

After the war’s end, the then tiny American University gave the Army permission to bury large quantities of munitions, weapons material, and chemicals on its grounds in exchange for leaving some of the base infrastructure for university use. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 400

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Atlanta University’s insulated campus sheltered a self-sufficient black intellectual community from Jim Crow — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 77