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The Hanford Plaintiffs - Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice (Paperback)
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The Hanford Plaintiffs - Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice (Paperback)
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For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear
weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly
blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing
radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who
lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers,
the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death
steadily climbed - despite repeated assurances from the Atomic
Energy Commission that the facility posed no threat. Trisha T.
Pritikin, who has battled a lifetime of debilitating illness to
become a lawyer and advocate for her fellow 'downwinders,' tells
the devastating story of those who were harmed in Hanford's wake
and, seeking answers and justice, were subjected to yet more
suffering. At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the oral
histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford Nuclear
Reservation Litigation, the class-action suit that sought
recognition of, and recompense for, the grievous injury knowingly
caused by Hanford. Radioactive contamination of American
communities was not uncommon during the wartime Manhattan Project,
nor during the Cold War nuclear buildup that followed. Pritikin
interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a
parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test
site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the
heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately,
persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the
government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford Plaintiffs
draws a damning picture of the failure of the US Congress and the
Judiciary to defend the American public and to adequately redress a
catastrophic wrong. Documenting the legal, medical, and human cost
of one community's struggle for justice, this book conveys in clear
and urgent terms the damage done to ordinary Americans in the name
of business, progress, and patriotism.
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