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Archives Spotlight: The top secret Hanford Project

Archives Spotlight: The top secret Hanford Project

More than 51,000 people worked at the Hanford site between 1943 and 1945. Less than 500 knew what they were making. Plutonium is a radioactive element derived from uranium, and was discovered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1941. Scientist Glenn Seaborg wrote a detailed description of plutonium and its potential uses. It could be a plentiful energy source, or used as a component in a major explosive weapon, he wrote. Of course, the creative insights fell upon deaf…

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Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

Tacoma World Trade Center honors Reed

(Secretary of State Reed stands with former Secretary of State Munro (left) and WTC Tacoma President/CEO Anthony Hemstad after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.) The World Trade Center Tacoma has honored Secretary of State Sam Reed for his long years of work on behalf of international trade and tourism to benefit the nation’s most trade-dependent state. The center, a fast-growing member of the international network of trade centers, gave Reed its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.   The 19th Annual Globe…

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Promoting trade between India and Washington State

Promoting trade between India and Washington State

Hemant Sonawala of Mumbai, India, with Secretary Reed Hoping to increase trade and tourism between Washington State and India, good friend of Sam Reed, Hemant Sonawala, met in the Secretary of  State’s Office today with colleagues from the Department of Commerce and the Lieutenant Governor’s Office.  Hemant is on a two-week trade mission, promoting India and the vast opportunities for small- to medium-sized Washington businesses to invest in that market.