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Atomic Frontier Days

Hanford and the American West

By John M. Findlay and Bruce W. Hevly

Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine

On the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile...

The Atomic West

By Bruce W. Hevly, John M. Findlay

The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West...