Cited

#8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)

Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history … <a class="more-link" href="https://citedpodcast.blubrry.net/2020/07/30/8-americas-chernobyl/">Continue reading #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2) →</a>

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