Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day ...

As the first atomic bomb, fueled with Hanford plutonium, was detonated in the New Mexico desert 10 months later, leaders feared there was a chance that the chain reaction could destroy the world.

The story of Hanford goes back to Germany in 1938 ... Roosevelt, warning about the potential for Germany to build an atomic bomb, and suggesting the United States develop one first.

Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over ... residents awoke to the news that Hanford was one of the secret sites responsible for the atomic bombs. "Tongues wagged, workmen talked ...

on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

Robert Oppenheimer needed to construct an atomic bomb. Matthias’ last stop on his hunt for a Manhattan Project site was this arid steppe known as the Hanford Reach. A nuclear reactor is not easy ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often called the 'father of the atomic bomb,' was almost removed from ... which focused on uranium enrichment; Hanford, Washington, where plutonium production facilities ...

The reactors and processing plants at Hanford produced the plutonium in the first atomic bomb ever exploded, in the Jornada del Muerto desert south of Albuquerque, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

DuPont had erected the first full-size nuclear reactor at this site and would produce plutonium for the atomic bomb. Few of the 20,000 workers at Hanford, including Mattingly, knew what was going ...

Signs along the road near the Hanford Site, where plutonium was enriched for the atomic bomb. The site remains a major employer but is now focused on a huge decontamination effort.Credit ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the band of geniuses he recruited won the existential race to create the atomic bombs that ended World War II. They also set the stage for a nuclear arms buildup in which ...