On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site - Softcover

Gerber, Michele Stenehjem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803271018 ISBN 13: 9780803271012

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2002

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Book by Gerber Michele Stenehjem

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Praise for the first edition: "On the Home Front should be read by everyone who cares about public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this post-modern world."--Western Historical Quarterly. "[Gerber's] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct."--Journal of American History. "[Declassified documents] reveal a five-decade pattern of environmental insult that is breathtaking in its scope and pervasiveness... The story [Gerber] tells grips us: the sticky web of strategic choices involving Hanford and its purposes has ensnared every inhabitant ... of the Pacific Northwest for more than half a century."--Oregon Historical Quarterly

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On the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most notorious plutonium production facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced most of the plutonium used in the atomic bombs that effectively 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. In a new epilogue, Michele Stenehjem Gerber provides a detailed history and commentary on the first twelve years of the Hanford cleanup project - the largest waste cleanup program in world history. 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 as a consultant to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Hanford Cultural Resources Management Plan.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0803271018
• ISBN 13: 9780803271012
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 375