American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2017: Washington, D.C)
The Social Legacy of the Manhattan Project [sound recording], 2017 January 29.
Audio recording of session M7 of the April 2017 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Washington, DC in January 2017. This session was chaired by Allen Sessoms, Georgetown University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Legacies of the Manhattan Project" (Daniel Kevles); "The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in Context" (Kelsey Davenport); "The History of Atoms for Peace" (Carlton Stoiber). Topics discussed include the Manhattan Project, World War II, nuclear weapons, Oak Ridge Laboratory, Hanford, Cold War, Office of Naval Research, Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, disarmament,
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States. Office of Naval Research
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Cold War
Disarmament.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear weapons
World War, 1939-1945
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Davenport, Kelsey
Kevles, Daniel J.
Sessoms, Allen Lee.
Stoiber, Carlton
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA