The Manhattan Project at Hanford Site by Elizabeth Toomey

Author:Elizabeth Toomey
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

“Compartmentalization of knowledge, to me, was the very heart of security,” Gen. Leslie R. Groves wrote in Now It Can Be Told, his 1983 account of the Manhattan Project. “My rule was simple and not capable of misunderstanding—each man should know everything he needed to know to do his job and nothing else.” His “simple” rule was strictly enforced at the Hanford Construction Camp and throughout the site by HEW security forces and undercover FBI agents, who ensured that work-related topics were absent from any conversations between coworkers and family members. Years later, former workers still speculate about fellow employees who talked one day and were mysteriously gone the next. While no espionage is known to have occurred at Hanford during the war, author Richard Rhodes reported that the design of the Soviets’ first nuclear reactor closely resembled Hanford’s test reactor—a coincidence that, at the very least, suggests some success on the part of Russian spies. (Courtesy of US Department of Energy Declassified Document Retrieval System.)

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