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Saturday
November 4, 2017 |
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| it could be hiroshima,
the concrete shell of a school consumed by fiery holocaust. but in this case we are here on the shrub-steppe of the hanford site, WA, the northwest's only active nuclear reactor spewing steam in the background. in 1943, the war department seized this area and displaced the farming communities of white bluffs and hanford, plus of course the first peoples who were getting run off by settlers a second time. no, this isn't hiroshima, but it is where the plutonium for fat man, the bomb dropped on nagasaki, was produced. what happened here at hanford high was a sort of neutron bomb--the last class forced by eviction to graduate early, in march 1943, the whole town depopulated, the corridors and gymnasium echoing empty. years later, brush fire swept through and consumed the interior. but not the ghosts. |
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