On the Home Front

Informationen zum Autor Michele Stenehjem Gerber works in the Public Information Office of Fluor Hanford! Inc. She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Declassification and has served on the Hanford Reach National Monument Federal Advisory Committee and consulted for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. John M. Findlay is a professor of history at the University of Washington and the coeditor of "Parallel Destinies: Canadians! Americans and the Western Border" and "The Atomic West." Klappentext "On the Home Front" is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced the plutonium used in the atomic bombs that 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. The third edition contains a new introduction by John M. Findlay and a new epilogue by the author.

Klappentext
"On the Home Front" is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced the plutonium used in the atomic bombs that 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. The third edition contains a new introduction by John M. Findlay and a new epilogue by the author.


Inhalt
Introduction to the New Bison Books EditionList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legacy1. Beginnings: The Land and the Place2. Building the Plants: Nuts, Bolts, and Chaos3. "Tell 'Em You're from Richland": Regional Growth in the Columbia Basin4. Blowing in the Wind: The Airborne Contaminants5. "Hail Columbia": The River-borne Contaminants6. Laying Waste to the Soil: The Groundwater Contaminants7. Radiobiology: The Learning Curve8. Truth and RebirthEpilogue: Richland, Washington: September 2006NotesGlossary of Technical or Specialized Terms, Acronyms, and AbbreviationsIndex

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