Volume 29, Number 7 · April 29, 1982
Our Town
By Roger Sale
Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex
by Paul Loeb
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 255 pp., $13.95
Cities and towns in the dry West always look as if they have dropped there arbitrarily. The landscape is so big, and often so barren, that human activity seems messy, aimless, marginal. Plains, mountains, endless wind, huge sky, and then—Butte, or Denver, or Casper seems wrongly placed even after one learns why it is there. Of all the dry western cities I know, none gives this impression so strongly as Richland-Kennewick-Pasco in Washington, the 'Tri-Cities' that came into existence when the Hanford atomic works was built to manufacture the plutonium that went into the first atomic bombs.
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