Hanford cleanup is part of a larger story. We started this webpage to have a place to introduce communities, people, places, and histories that are interconnected with Hanford in ways that are accessible, memorable, and hopefully allow you to feel something that inspires action or response. 

Nuclear waste stewardship is intergenerational. It is our hope that these stories make us stronger so we can continue the fight for a future where people and the environment are protected from the dangers of nuclear waste. Together we fight for a safer, cleaner future.

Expand the story with us and build collective understanding of these complex legacies by sharing them with your family and friends. We want to be in conversation with you too. Let us know if there is something you would be interested in learning more about or wishing we would include.

Oppenheimer #ExpandTheStory

Even if you haven’t seen it, you’ve heard the buzz about the blockbuster Oppenheimer movie in theaters across the world. With the movie’s hyper-focus on the team that built the bomb, many stories are left out. Here are some of the stories we’d like you to take the time to sit with and get to know. In a seven email series with corresponding social media posts, we are inviting you to #ExpandTheStory.

Here are some responses to Oppenheimer we’ve collected so far. We also want to hear from you, so please send us a message and share your thoughts:

• My Reason for Not Watching Oppenheimer (A Perspective from Hiroshima), by Yukiyo Kawano

• What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test, by Tina Cordova

• Architect of Annihilation: Oppenheimer’s Deadly Legacy of Nuclear Terror, by Klee Benally and Leona Morgan

• Hiroshima governor: Here’s what Oppenheimer means to me, by Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of the Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan

• The Navajo Suffered from Nuclear Testing: Oppenheimer Doesn’t Tell our Story, by Buu V. Nygren

• What can we learn from ‘Oppenheimer’ about the blind spots in nuclear storytelling, by Shampa Biswas

• The terrible emptiness of "Oppenheimer" by Alicia Inez Guzmán

• The nuclear arms race’s legacy at home: Toxic contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy, by William Kinsella

• ‘Oppenheimer’ overlooks a critical place in the dawn of the nuclear age, by Steve Olson, author of The Apocalypse Factory

• Tuesday’s Postcard, and the days between nightmares, by Tim Connor, Daily Rhubarb