American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2010: Washington, D.C)
Secrecy and physics [sound recording], 2010 February 13.
Audio recording of session B5 of the April 2010 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Washington, DC in February 2010. This session was co-sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics (FHP), the APS Forum on Physics and Society (FPS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), and chaired by Peter Galison of Harvard University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Secrecy and Physics" (Peter Galison); "Secrecy and Physicists: Intersections of Science and National Security" (Steven Aftergood); "How Much Secrecy?" (William Happer). Topics discussed include national security, Manhattan Project, Cold War science, and nuclear weapons research.
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.)
Cold War.
National security -- United States.
Nuclear energy -- Security measures.
Nuclear fission -- Security measures.
Nuclear weapons -- Research.
Physics -- History -- Congresses.
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Aftergood, Steven
Galison, Peter, 1955-
Happer, William, 1939-
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA