Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session R7: The Manhattan Project: History and HeritageInvited Undergraduate
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Sponsoring Units: FHP DNP Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired) Room: Delaware A |
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
R7.00001: The Manhattan Project: An Overview Invited Speaker: Cameron Reed August 2017 will mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Army's Manhattan Engineer District, which oversaw the development and deployment of the first generation of nuclear weapons during World War II. In this talk I give an overview of the Manhattan Project, touching on its historical context, genesis, organization, facilities, accomplishments, challenges encountered, and legacies. I will also comment briefly on some of its lesser-known aspects and the persistent popular mythologies that still surround it. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
R7.00002: Welcome to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park! Invited Speaker: Cynthia Kelly The making of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park took more than five times longer than the Manhattan Project itself. The first efforts to preserve some of the Manhattan Project properties at Los Alamos began in 1999. Fifteen years later, Congress enacted legislation to create a Manhattan Project National Historical Park in late 2014. This session will recount the how the park came into being and what to expect when you visit the park at Los Alamos, NM, Oak Ridge, TN, and Hanford, WA. Welcome to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park! [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
R7.00003: Deconstructing The Bomb: Confessions of a Nuclear Archeologist Invited Speaker: John Coster-Mullen I am the author of the groundbreaking book Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man. I will be sharing some of my quarter century of research and methodology that has allowed me to be the first researcher ever to unravel with an unprecedented level of accuracy, the most closely-guarded secrets of the first two Atomic Bombs (“Little Boy” and “Fat Man”) created by the Manhattan Project that were used to end WWII. I refer to this methodology as “Nuclear Archeology” and will demonstrate that this was done using entirely “Open Sources” of information. [Preview Abstract] |
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