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Hill Williams At an isolated location along the Columbia River in 1944, the world’s first plutonium factory became operational, producing fuel for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. Former Seattle Times science writer Hill Williams traces the…

Edited by Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin Mid-Columbia region history mirrors common American West multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the third Hanford Histories volume, four scholars draw from oral histories to focus on the experiences of non-white groups such as the Wanapum, Chinese immigrants, World…

Edited by Michael Mays Covering topics from print journalism, activism, nuclear testing, and science and education to health physics, environmental cleanup, and kitsch, essays collected from the Hanford History Project’s March 2017 conference along with additional new research illuminate facets of the Manhattan Project…

Edited by Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin The first volume in the new Hanford Histories series, Nowhere to Remember highlights life in Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland—three small, close-knit eastern Washington agricultural communities—until 1943, when the Manhattan Project forced a permanent, mandatory evacuation. Early chapters cover settlement and development,…