Irene Lusztig’s documentary, which premiered at Tribeca, spends time with the residents of Richland, Washington, a small town that played a big role in the Manhattan Project.
In the town of Richland, Washington, which was created in 1943 as part of a clandestine government program, there’s a street named Proton Lane, the high school football team is called the Bombers, and the school mascot is a mushroom cloud. It’s been decades since the nearby Hanford Nuclear Site was decommissioned, but Richland remains, in many ways, a company town — one that’s explored with openheartedness and piercing insight in Irene Lusztig’s eloquent documentary.
For more than 40 years, the Hanford Site produced weapons-grade plutonium, 14 pounds of which went into “Fat Boy,” the bomb the United States detonated over Nagasaki as its final, deadly strike in World War II. In what might be called a sign of overkill, about 70 metric tons of plutonium remained in storage at the sprawling plant when it was shuttered.
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