The Apocalypse Factory
Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Steve Olson 2020, Beaverton Library 623.4511 OLS
- 05 plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb
31 Chemical separation of plutonium with S₂O₈ UCB Gilman Hall room 303 by Seaborg and Wahl Feb 1941
- 52 Chicago Met Lab, plutonium contaminated hose used to fix soda machine
55 Stone&Webster -> du Pont
- 63 1943 March eviction White Bluffs WA 300 residents
- 64 177 graves moved to Prosser (32 mi south) . . 65 600 square miles
- 66 Grove assistant 34yo Franklin Matthias, Hanford construction boss
- 70 Matthias helps Wanapum natives, later barred from Hanford and ancestor's graves after the war
- 72 interviewed 250K workers, hired 100K, 45K remained, 15K blacks
- 76 1944 union "day's pay" campaign raised $162K to buy a B-17 for the air force
- 77 eight mess halls, 2700 people each, 50,000 box lunches