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Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

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On the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial web page that seems to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for its origins as a 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 nuclear weapons. Hanford mechanically makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future.

It is easy to take into consideration Hanford as an expression of federal power, a place except for humanity and nature, but that view distorts its history. Atomic Frontier Days looks through a much wider lens, telling a complex story of production, community building, politics, and environmental sensibilities. In brilliantly structured parallel stories, the authors bridge the divisions that accompany Hanford’s headlines and offer point of view on today’s controversies. Influenced as much by regional culture, economics, and politics as by war, diplomacy, and environmentalism, Hanford and the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick remove darkness from the history of the up to date American West.

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