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In 1996, the US Department of Energy and the Washington State Historic Preservation Office designated the Hanford Site Manhattan Project and Cold War Era facilities as a Historic District. Many of the facilities have been or will be destroyed, so this book's photographs and narrative history is intended to serve as a record of the structures and activities related to producing plutonium at the Hanford Site during the Manhattan Project and the Cold...
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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...
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"On the Home Front is the history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most notorious plutonium production facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced most of the plutonium used in the atomic bombs that effectively ended World War II. This book was made possible by the declassification in the 1980s of tens of thousands of government documents relating to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the site....
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