Steve Olson

Steve Olson is a Seattle-based writer who specializes in science, mathematics, and public policy. He is author of several nonfiction books, most notably Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (2002), which was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Science-in-Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. His other books include Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (2016); and The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (2020).
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The Apocalypse Factory

By Steve Olson

An excerpt from Seattle author and Orcas Currents lecturer Steve Olson’s new book, The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Bomb, destined to become the definitive history of Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state.
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