The Atomic West

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix The Atomic West: Region and Nation, 1942-1992 Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay 3' I. 8UILDING A FEDERAL PRESENCE Grand Coulee and Hanford: The Atomic Bomb and the Development of the Columbia River Robert E. Ficken 21 General Groves and the Atomic West; The Making and the Meaning of Hanford Stanley Goldberg 39 Building the Atomic Cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American Planning Language Carl Abbott 90 II. THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AT WORK The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the Founding of the Atomic West GreggHerken 119 vii Contents James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West FerencM. Szasz 136 "Hotter Than a $2 Pistol": Fallout, Sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 Barton C. Hacker 157 III. LOCAL RESISTANCE Alaska and the Firecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot Dan O'Neill 179 Radical Initiatives and Moderate Alternatives: California's 1976 Nudear Safeguards Initiative Thomas Wellock 200 Antinudear Activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and Its Enemies DonielPope 236 Alr Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon Rhetoric of Place and the MX Conflict MattheW Glass 255 Contributors 276 Index 279 viii ...