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.
It is easy to think about Hanford as an expression of federal
power, a place apart from humanity and nature, but that view is a
distortion of 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,
the story of Hanford and the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and
Kennewick illuminates the history of the modern American West.
John M. Findlay is professor of history at the University of
Washington. His focus is social and urban history. Bruce Hevly is
associate professor of history at the University of Washington. His
focus is history of science and technology.
""Atomic Frontier Days" captures one of the most interesting and
controversial places in the American West in all its surprising
particularity. Technologically sophisticated, shrewd, at once
analytically unflinching and generous, it belongs on the short list
of books necessary to understand the West and its complicated
relation to the nation." -Richard White, author of "The Organic
Machine"
"This richly detailed study takes us beyond big government
programs and corporate contracts to show people coping with the
intricate dance of science and technology, warfare and welfare, the
mess of making bombs and the business of cleaning up." -Virginia
Scharff, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico
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