ABSTRACT
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for many of the approximately 70,000 nuclear warheads the United States manufactured for the American nuclear program. Because of a culture of cold war secrecy surrounding the nuclear program, public awareness of nuclear risks was not widespread until the expansion of nuclear power programs during the late 1980s. Sophie Kinsella noted that multiple forms of public expertise were necessary in order to breach the system of security and silence surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The chapter explores the rhetoric of mapping. It describes the emergence of the farmer expertise. The chapter analyzes the emergency zone map before finally providing some considerations of the ways in which this group produced localized expertise through antenarrative production. Maps are more than static representations of the past. The map carved out a rhetorical space in which the community of farmers could share their personal expertise of living in the shadow of the nuclear facilities as a collective.
