''Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West'' is a nonfiction book describing the history of the

Hanford Site The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. It has also been known as SiteW and the Hanford Nuclear R ...

. It details the history of Hanford and the neighboring Tri-Cities region during World War II and the Cold War. A review in the ''

Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the quarterly official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the o ...

'' called it "a narrative of tangled, contending motives and complex consequences that does not end happily" and noted its writing "with the broad view of western-regional as well as local and national concerns" compared to other more locally-oriented works such as ''On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site'', ''Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World'' and ''Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford''.

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