Atomic frontier days [electronic resource] : Hanford and the American West / John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly.

9780295802985 (electronic book)
9780295990972

Seattle [Wash.] : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xv, 368 p.) : ill., maps.

TD898.12.W2 F56 2011eb

623.4/51190979751

On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square mile compound on the Columbia in eastern Washington is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project, which made the first atomic bombs, and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up forty-five years' of waste from manufacturing plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Hanford routinely makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future.

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Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.

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