| Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World Contributor(s): Williams, Hill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874223075 ISBN-13: 9780874223071 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Military - Nuclear Warfare - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 623.451 |
| LCCN: 2011006408 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.58" W x 8.33" (0.61 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1942, a small plane carrying Lt. Col. Franklin T. Matthias and two DuPont engineers flew over three farming communities in eastern Washington. The passengers agreed. Isolated and near the powerful Columbia River, the region was the ideal site for the world's first plutonium factory. Two years later, built with a speed and secrecy unheard of today, the facility was operational. The plutonium it produced fueled the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. Hill Williams traces the amazing but also tragic story from the dawn of nuclear science through World War II and Cold War testing in the Marshall Islands. |
