On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition

Michele Stenehjem Gerber

ISBN 10: 0803259956 / ISBN 13: 9780803259959

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2007

About this Item

Num Pages: 424 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572. . 2007. 3rd Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803259956
• ISBN 13: 9780803259959
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.