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Johnson wrote 27 novels. Her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, was published in 1935. Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. [8] Her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, caused some
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West is a nonfiction book describing the history of the Hanford Site.It details the history of Hanford and the neighboring Tri-Cities region during World War II and the Cold War.
The N-Reactor at the Hanford site along the Columbia River. Aerial Photo of the N-Reactor. Taken January 2013. Fuel element from N-Reactor. The N-Reactor was a water/graphite-moderated nuclear reactor constructed during the Cold War and operated by the U.S. government at the Hanford Site in Washington; it began production in 1963.
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
Benjamin Hanford was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1861, [1] the son of George Byington Hanford and Susan Elizabeth Martin Hanford. [2] Ben's mother died when he was in infancy. [ 3 ] Hanford's father later married Frances Jane Thompson, a woman from Bangor, Maine who as Hanford's step-mother imparted a taste for scholarship and culture upon him.
Jerry Gustave Hasford (November 28, 1947 – January 29, 1993), also known under his pen name Gustav Hasford, was an American novelist, journalist and poet.His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers (1979) was the basis for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987). [1]
Published in 2012 by the University of Washington Press, the poetry presents a brief history of Richland, Washington and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The author examines the actions of the US Department of Energy regarding the establishment and operation of Hanford, a nuclear production facility and how their actions affected the health of ...
Emily Hanford is an American education reporter who hosted the APM Reports podcast Sold a Story. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called her "the most prominent figure in advocacy for big changes in reading instruction."