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OBITUARY ARTICLE IN SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS LIST OF KEY DATES PREPARED BY E. HANSEN

CHARLES ROBERT (CHUCK) HANSEN

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Born

May 13, 1947

Moved to Seattle, WA

June 1949 (With Family)

Graduated from high school, Seattle WA

June 1965 (Highline)

Attended University of WA in Seattle

Autumn 1965 through Autumn 1967

First Visited Bay Area

Spring 1967

Worked at Boeing as a Computer Operator

November-December 1967 through late Autumn 1968

Moved to Palo Alto

January 1969

Worked in computer software fields

January 1969 - Spring 1992

Met Eleanor Smith

Thanksgiving 1969

First exposed to nuclear weapons info

Falconer Library, Dept of Biological Sciences, Stanford

First work on nuclear weapons published

Short article in "Replica in Scale" in mid-1970’s

Married Eleanor Smith

December 17, 1977

First published book

"USS San Francisco, The Technical History"; self- published in early 1980’s; 500 copies.

Achieved fame as nuclear weapons researcher--1979

Helped the publishers of the Progressive Magazine get injunction against the publication of Howard Morland’s article on nuclear weapons lifted.

Major work on U.S. history of nuclear weapons published

U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Secret History, published in 1988 by Orion/Crown Publishers.

Further work on the U.S. history of nuclear weapons published

The Swords of Armageddon CD-ROM published in late 1995 and distributed first January 1996

Assisted in writing of Book on B-36

Wrote several chapters for Meyers K Jacobsen’s "Convair B-36 A Comprehensive History of America’s Big Stick" published in 1998.

Diagnosed as having brain cancer ; had surgery and radiation

October 2001; participated in Phase II clinical trial at UCSF until mid Nov 2002.

Died

After tumor re-growth starting Dec 2002, March 26, 2003

 

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