American Physical Society. (2012: Atlanta, Ga)
Physicists advising on national security [sound recording], 2012 April 1.
Audio recording of session H5 of the April 2012 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Atlanta, GA in March-April 2012. This session was sponsored by the Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) and chaired by Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today Editor Emerita. Talks (and speakers) include: "Experience with the President's Science Advisory Committee, It's Panels, and Other Modes of Advice" (Richard Garwin); "Experiences Advising our Government from the Point of View of a JASON" (Roy Schwitters); "Adivisory Experiences with the DOD, DOE, and the Intelligence Community" (John Foster, Jr.). Topics discussed include President Dwight Eisenhower, nuclear testing, Technological Capabilities Panel (TCP), Scientific Advisory Committee and the Office of Defense Mobilization (SAC-ODM), Edwin Land, President's Science Advisory Committee, JASON, national security, cold war, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, government consulting.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Land, Edwin Herbert, 1909-1991
JASON Defense Advisory Group
United States. Department of Defense
United States. Department of Energy fast
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Cold War
Government consultants.
National security.
Nuclear warfare -- Testing
Foster, John S., 1922-
Garwin, Richard L.
Lubkin, Gloria
Schwitters, Roy F.
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA