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Title: First You Build Three Towns
Review: One of the things that the Manhattan project did in World War II was to build three new towns: Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford Washington. In January of 1943 General Groves ordered the commandeering of 670 square miles of Washington State land as "necessary to the public interest." On it he built the Hanford plant to produce plutonium.Everything was done one a rush basis, and by 1945 something like 30 pounds of plutonium had been produced. No one knew if a bomb produced using plutonium would even work. About thirteen and a half pounds of it were used on July 16, 1945 at Trinity site. It worked. A duplicate of that device, with some streamlining and tail fins added was dropped over Nagasaki. It worked there too.This book is an oral history, a series of discussions with dozens of people who were working at or in conjunction with Hanford. It's a unique side to the story.
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