On the Home Front
The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 1. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-8032-5995-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct." -Journal of American History "A welcome contribution to the growing historiography of the Cold War. . . The questions raised by Gerber about the role of experts and of secrecy in a democracy will hopefully attract the serious attention they so earnestly deserve."-American Historical ReviewMore details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Nebraska
United States
Publishing group
University of Nebraska Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
18 photographs, 2 maps, notes, glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-5995-9 (9780803259959)
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Persons
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.
Content
Introduction to the New Bison Books EditionList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legacy1. Beginnings: The Land and the Place2. Building the Plants: Nuts, Bolts, and Chaos3. "Tell 'Em You're from Richland": Regional Growth in the Columbia Basin4. Blowing in the Wind: The Airborne Contaminants5. "Hail Columbia": The River-borne Contaminants6. Laying Waste to the Soil: The Groundwater Contaminants7. Radiobiology: The Learning Curve8. Truth and RebirthEpilogue: Richland, Washington: September 2006NotesGlossary of Technical or Specialized Terms, Acronyms, and AbbreviationsIndex