Atomic Frontier Days - Hanford and the American West

Informationen zum Autor John M. Findlay and Bruce W. Hevly Klappentext Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine 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 River 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 nuclear weapons. Hanford routinely makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future. It is easy to think about Hanford as an expression of federal power, a place apart from humanity and nature, but that view distorts its history. Atomic Frontier Days looks through a 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 perspective 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 illuminate the history of the modern American West. Inhaltsverzeichnis One Plutonium, Production, and Pollution Hanford's Career as Federal Enclave Two The Atomic City of the West Richland and the Tri-Cities Three The Politics of Hanford Warfare and Welfare Four Hanford and the Columbia River Basin Economy and Ecology Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Note on Sources Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliographic Essay Index ...

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• Authors: John M Findlay, John M. Findlay, John M. Hevly Findlay, John M./ Hevly Findlay, Bruce W Hevly, Bruce W. Hevly
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780295996974
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99697-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Se; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We; Atomic Frontier Days
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous