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 ...

Some of this material ended up in the atomic bomb used in the Trinity Test ... York Times explains that radiation released from the Hanford site into the river had reached the Pacific Ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animal experiments started at Hanford during World War II, when plutonium was produced for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Some were planned to learn more about the health effects of ...