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.

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.

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 ...

Scaled up, this could mean an atomic bomb. The secretive United States ... while thousands more created another fissile material, plutonium, in Hanford, Washington. Including the hundreds of ...

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 ...

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.

The atomic bombing of ... both at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki 77 years ago, helping end World War II, was fueled with plutonium produced at the Hanford nuclear reservation ...

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 ...

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 ...