| OBITUARY ARTICLE IN SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS | LIST OF KEY DATES PREPARED BY E. HANSEN |
CHARLES ROBERT (CHUCK) HANSEN
KEY DATES
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Born |
May 13, 1947 |
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Moved to Seattle, WA |
June 1949 (With Family) |
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Graduated from high school, Seattle WA |
June 1965 (Highline) |
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Attended University of WA in Seattle |
Autumn 1965 through Autumn 1967 |
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First Visited Bay Area |
Spring 1967 |
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Worked at Boeing as a Computer Operator |
November-December 1967 through late Autumn 1968 |
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Moved to Palo Alto |
January 1969 |
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Worked in computer software fields |
January 1969 - Spring 1992 |
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Met Eleanor Smith |
Thanksgiving 1969 |
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First exposed to nuclear weapons info |
Falconer Library, Dept of Biological Sciences, Stanford |
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First work on nuclear weapons published |
Short article in "Replica in Scale" in mid-1970’s |
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Married Eleanor Smith |
December 17, 1977 |
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First published book |
"USS San Francisco, The Technical History"; self- published in early 1980’s; 500 copies. |
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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. |
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Major work on U.S. history of nuclear weapons published |
U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Secret History, published in 1988 by Orion/Crown Publishers. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Diagnosed as having brain cancer ; had surgery and radiation |
October 2001; participated in Phase II clinical trial at UCSF until mid Nov 2002. |
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Died |
After tumor re-growth starting Dec 2002, March 26, 2003 |