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i X We are grateful to many people and organizations for supporting this project . Our research benefited early on from funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (Cooperative Agreement no. DE-FC06-91-RL12260). We are indebted to Tom Bauman and especially Marji Parker of the Richland Operations Office for overseeing the grant and providing so much encouragement . The Cooperative Agreement helped us to produce a manuscript called “Nuclear Technologies and Nuclear Communities: A History of Hanford and the Tri-Cities” (1995, available in PRR). The project received financial support as well from the University of Washington Graduate School Research Fund, and from the Department of History, University of Washington, and in particular the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Fund to support faculty research and the Lenore Hanauer Fund. We received considerable support at the many libraries we visited, and extend our heartfelt thanks to the staffs at all of them: Special Collections, University of Washington Library, Seattle (where Carla Rickerson and Karyl Winn deserve special mention); the U.S. Department of Energy Public Reading Room in Richland, Washington (where Terri Traub proved as kind as she was helpful); the Richland Public Library, Richland, Washington; the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; the Penrose Library, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington; the Office of History and Heritage Resources, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown , Maryland (where Roger Anders, Benjamin Franklin Cooling, and Terrence Fehner were most accommodating); the National Archives Center , Southeast Region, Morrow, Georgia (where Charlie Reeves guided us to wonderful materials); the National Archives Regional Facility, Seattle; and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. In searching for photographs , we benefited from the deep knowledge and keen interest of Dan Ostergaard, a photographic specialist who works for Lockheed Martin, a DOE subcontractor in the Tri-Cities, Washington. Gabriele Sperling of the Franklin County Historical Society and Museum, Pasco, Washington , and Corene Hulse of the East Benton County Historical Museum, Acknowledgments X Ac Kn oW l edG me n ts Kennewick, Washington, also helped us identify suitable photographs. Frederick Bird conscientiously prepared the maps for the book. Over the years, many graduate students served as research assistants on this project. We thank Jennifer Alexander, Sharon Boswell, John Eby, Glen Furnas, Lorraine McConaghy, Chad Moody, Kathy Morse, Will Prust, Joe Roza, Robert Self, and Moran Tompkins. Matt Klingle shared his related research with us. We benefited from conversations with several former Hanfordemployees,includinginparticularthelateFredClagettandthelate Merle Harmon. Doug Tillson of Kennewick provided a guided tour of the hydroplane pits once home to the Atomic Cup during a Columbia Cup race. Overtheyears,numerousscholarslistenedtoourideasandofferedthoughts or nuggets from their own research. Paul Forman of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was an informative companion for a tour of the B reactor early in our work. We are particularly grateful to colleagues Dan Pope and Michele Gerber, who commented helpfully on the entire manuscript at a late stage, and for their own scholarship on nuclear energy in Washington State. Finally, we appreciate the close reading by three anonymous readers for the University of Washington Press, the editing of Kerrie Maynes, and the patience and encouragement of Julidta Tarver and Marianne Keddington-Lang. ...

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