Category: History

Copyright/published Year: 2007 by University of Nebras

ISBN: 0803259956

Binding: trade pap

Description: This is the Third Edition, published in 2007.

On the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of ì the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful ì plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern ì Washington State, the Hanford Site produced the plutonium used in ì the atomic bombs that ended World War II. This book was made ì possible by the declassification in the 1980s of tens of ì thousands of government documents relating to the construction, ì operation, and maintenance of the site. The third edition ì contains a new introduction by John M. Findlay and a new epilogue ì by the author.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

Slight shelf-wear to front covers with come bumping to outer corners. Sound binding, clean unmarked copy.