Hanford was a midwife to the atomic age
In the beginning was a theory called fission.
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Hanford Industrial Building. Aug. 23, 1945.
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Hanford Atom Factory. Aug. 23, 1945.
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Aug. 23, 1945. This is one of the production areas at the Hanford Engineer Works near where the new atomic bomb, dropped on Japan, was developed.
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One of the production areas at the Hanford Engineer Works on Aug. 23, 1945, near where the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 14 days earlier was developed.
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Aug. 23, 1945. This is one of the production areas at the Hanford Engineer Works near where the new atomic bomb, dropped on Japan, was developed.
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Aug. 23, 1945. This is one of the production areas at the Hanford Engineer Works near where the new atomic bomb, dropped on Japan, was developed.
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Aug. 23, 1945. This is one of the production areas at the Hanford Engineer Works near where the new atomic bomb, dropped on Japan, was developed.
The Spokesman-Review Photo Archive
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Workers are dwarfed by the work at the Hanford construction site during the WWII race to build the atomic bomb.
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The S&E Bank at the Hanford Works Camp is seen in this image taken
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Camp Hanford at the Hanford Engineering Project in 1945.
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Hanford Works 1945-The first congressional party to visit the Hanford atomic bomb project near Richland, Washington after its identity was disclosed was this house subcommittee on Interior Department appropriations , shown in this picture receiving photographs of the project from its commanding officer, Col. F.T. Matthias. The Iowa; The Congressman include Ben Jensen, Iowa; Henry Dworshak Idaho; William Duvall, executive secretary to committee; Col. Matthias; Dr. Paul Raver, Bonneville administrator; John Rooney, New York and Jed Johnson, committee chairman, Oklahoma.
Associated Press
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Larry Johnston has a picture of the Nagasaki blast in 1945 with his mementos of WW2.
Courtesy Of Larry Johnston
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