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Wilson recalls his experience of growing up in the 1960s in Kennewick Washington where twenty miles upstream, beyond its sister city of Richland, lay the Hanford Atomic Works. Established during World War II to produce plutonium for the bomb that would drop on Nagasaki, Hanford continued to supply t...

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Published in:Southwest review 2016-03, Vol.101 (2), p.198-205
Main Author: WILSON, MILES
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cold War
Coming of age
Essays
Explosives
Family history
Firearms ownership
Recall
Rural life
Shooting
War
Weapons testing
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Summary:Wilson recalls his experience of growing up in the 1960s in Kennewick Washington where twenty miles upstream, beyond its sister city of Richland, lay the Hanford Atomic Works. Established during World War II to produce plutonium for the bomb that would drop on Nagasaki, Hanford continued to supply the goods for the nation's strategic weapons and testing program. If the Cold War ever got hot, he recalls, they would be the first to know.
ISSN:0038-4712
2168-5487