The Manhattan Project: Place, People and Power
Posted at 10:53 AM on 10-14-08 by Rob T Firefly
In support of Doctor Atomic, an operatically fictionalized account of the events surrounding Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, there’s a historical event this Friday afternoon at CUNY with some of the real people involved with the project.
The Manhattan Project was one of the largest and most secretive military projects upon which the United States has ever embarked. Most of the people involved did not fully know the details. Join us for an in-depth series of presentations and discussion of the Manhattan Project with Harold Agnew, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and photographers Rachel Fermi (granddaughter of renowned physicist and grandfather of the first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi) and Esther Samra together in conversation with selected Manhattan Project veterans.
Check out the event’s website for more info and location details.
(via Science & the City)