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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Olson, Steve, 1956- author.     Subjects     Hanford Engineer Works -- History.     Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Plutonium industry -- Washington (State) -- Hanford -- History -- 20th century.     Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Olson, Steve, 1956- author.       by title:      The apocalypse facto...         MARC Display

The apocalypse factory : plutonium and the making of the atomic age / Steve Olson. by Olson, Steve, 1956- author. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] Subjects Hanford Engineer Works -- History.   Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Plutonium industry -- Washington (State) -- Hanford -- History -- 20th century.   Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780393634976 (hardcover) : 0393634973 (hardcover) : Description:  xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Part 1. The road to Hanford. -- Chapter 1. Beginnings. -- Chapter 2. The chain reaction. -- Chapter 3. Element 94. -- Chapter 4. The decision -- Chapter 5. The Met Lab. -- Chapter 6. Plutonium at last. -- Chapter 7. The demonstration. -- Part 2. A factory in the desert -- chapter 8.The evicted -- Chapter 9. The builders -- Chapter 10. The B Reactor -- Chapter 11. The T Plant -- Chapter 12. Implosion -- Chapter 13. Washington, D.C. -- Chapter 14. Trinity -- Chapter 15. Tinian Island -- Part 3. Under the mushroom cloud -- Chapter 16. Nagasaki Medical College Hospital -- Chapter 17. The Urakami Valley -- Chapter 18. Nagasaki -- Part 4. Confronting Armageddon -- Chapter 19. The Cold War -- Chapter 20. Building the nuclear arsenal -- Chapter 21. Peak production -- Chapter 22. The reckoning -- Chapter 23. Remembering. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to produce this dangerous material arose from the desert of eastern Washington State. Plutonium powered the bomb that dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (a target selected in almost arbitrary fashion). And the work of Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and hundreds of thousands of others-the physicists, engineers, laborers, and support staff of the Hanford Nuclear Facility-would remain the basis of the entire US nuclear arsenal during the Cold War and into the present. With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and human stories, Steve Olson offers this dramatic story of human achievement-and hubris-to a new generation"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 623.45119 Ol Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 623.45119 Olson Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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