My name is Martin Schilde and I am a retired disabled person.

1.What is Hanford?

Hanford, is a decommissioned nuclear weapons facility in southern Washington State.

2. How did you first learn about the Hanford site?

I guess through stream of consciousness because I was born in 1981, during some of the Cold War. I should say, during some of the worst parts. I don't know very extensively about the site because I'm not very well aquatinted as I should be.

3. What image comes to mind when you think of Hanford in general?

The destruction of populations of living, breathing organisms as well as nature, in general.

4. How would you explain what Hanford is to someone who has never heard of it?

I would say that they displaced a large amount of natural resources to achieve a military aim, in a hegemonic attitude to control the world. I would also say that people were displaced, land was taken, and the United States military is the greatest threat to our survival on the planet.

5. Is there a lesson to be learned from Hanford?

Yes, the manhattan project and the quest for global hegemony is not parallel to anything we have ever seen and does not have a distinct apparatus in history, except to say that it is unhistoric and claims no reference in the scheme of things other than an equilibrium to stasis modality which begs accountability from something, other than Machiavellian realism.

6. What do you see for the future of the Hanford site?

Hard to say, given the amount of pollution and disdain for the local equilibrium and nature, and people. Very hard to say.