• • 1   WW II
  • 2   Cold War
  • 3   Postwar Politics
  • 4   Role of Women
  • 5   1950s Change
• •  6   Intellectual
  •  7   Civil Rights
  •  8   Division
  •  9   Counterculture
  • 10  Nixon Era
• • 11   Era of Limits
  • 12   Reagan Revolution
  • 13   Culture Wars
  • 14   Environment
  • 15   Retrospective

Week Two:  The Cold War

Richland remained a farming village (population approximately 250) until 1942, when, with the development of the atomic bomb, it became part of the 400,000-acre reservation of the Hanford Engineer Works- and the Manhattan Project. 65.000 workers were brought in for construction and operation of Hanford

Today, Hanford is the site of the only operating nuclear power plant in the Northwest, the Columbia Generating Station operated by Energy Northwest.

Please refer to this series of essays from HistoryLink.org for an expanded understanding of Hanford siting, construction and opening.

Other Resources:

Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Columbia River History
http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/Hanford.asp

Hanford Engineering Works
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Course%20Index/Lessons/20/20.html

Hanford Engineer Works Village (Richland, Washington): Shaping a Nuclear Community, by David W. Harvey & Katheryn H. Kraft
http://www.owt.com/ebchs/architecture/Richland/h_village.htm

Minuteman Missile fields in the United States Library of Congress

Minuteman Missile site in Teton County, Montana

Montana
Malmstrom Air Base and Minuteman Missile Sites
Minuteman Missiles were designed to deliver nuclear warheads to targets in the Soviet Union as part of the Cold War. The military located the missiles in the northern Great Plains for several strategic purposes:

• Range of missiles (over the north pole to targets)
• Far from U.S. coastline population and Soviet submarine range
• Logistical support from existing Air Force bases

The first 50 missiles were deployed to Malmstrom Air Force Base's "missile field" in 1961, dispersing the weapons over thousands of acres. Eventually Montana's collection of underground warheads grew to 200, and appeared in small fenced installations on ranch and farmland from the Rocky Mountain Front through the Judith Basin.

Resources
Minuteman Turns 40.
www.afa.org/magazine/March2001/0301minute_print.html [file://localhost/exchweb/bin/redir.asp]
Air Force article on the Minuteman missile.

Minute Man Missile, National Park Service, Nat'l Historic Site, South Dakota.
www.nps.gov/mimi/ [file://localhost/exchweb/bin/redir.asp] Provides information from the South Dakota home of the Minuteman.
Minuteman Missile site photo gallery
www.nps.gov/../photogallery.htm?eid=124746&root_aId=185
- e_124746
www.nps.gov/mimi/..?eid=124746&root_aId=185#e_124746
Resources for Teachers
www.nps.gov/history/../lessons/128mimi/128locate1.htm
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site: Protecting a Legacy of the Cold War
www.nps.gov/../TWHP%20Minuteman%20Missile%20Revision.pdf

Minuteman Missile Sites, University of Wyoming.
asuwlink.uwyo.edu/~jimkirk/minuteman.html [file://localhost/exchweb/bin/redir.asp]
Many links and resources on the Minuteman.

Malmstrom AFB Minuteman Missile Sites http://asuwlink.uwyo.edu/~jimkirk/malmstrom.html
[file://localhost/exchweb/bin/redir.asp]
USGS images of missile silos included. Great Falls, Montana base oversees 200 Minuteman missile sites. The first squadron of Minuteman missiles was deployed at Malmstrom, in 1961.

Missile stockpile to decrease at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Billings Gazette article
http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/02/news/state/16-stockpile.txt