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On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition
Michele Stenehjem Gerber
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Description for On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition
Paperback. 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.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803259959
SKU
V9780803259959
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99-1
About Michele Stenehjem Gerber
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 ... Read more
Reviews for On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition
“On the Home Front [is] a work of history dispassionately told, thoroughly footnoted, the literary equivalent of a nuclear explosion.”—Michael E. Long, National Geographic “On the Home Front should be read by everyone concerned with public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this postmodern world.” —William L. Lang, Western Historical Quarterly “[Gerber’s] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's ... Read more