The Hanford Site hosts a research center.
=== Camp Hanford ===During the war the Hanford Site was patroled by a Military Police detachment which, as of June 1945, had forty soldiers
" The existence and purpose of Hanford was publicly revealed through press releases on August 7 and 9, 1945, after the bombing of Hiroshima but before Hanford plutonium in a Fat Man bomb was used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9

