On the Home Front

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On the Home Front is written by Michele Stenehjem Gerber and published by U of Nebraska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803271018 (ISBN 10) and 9780803271012 (ISBN 13).

On the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most notorious plutonium production facility. Located in southeasternøWashington 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.