Nuclear
Diner: The Santa Fe Institute recently brought together
physicists, historians, and social scientists to discuss the
long-term legacies of the Manhattan Project. Among the
participants at the
12â13
May conference were Harold Agnew, former director of Los
Alamos National Laboratory and scientific observer on a plane
that escorted the
Enola Gay; Murray Gell-Mann, recipient of the 1969
Nobel Prize in Physics; Stan Norris, a historian and author of
Racing for the Bomb
; Gregg Herken, author of
Brotherhood of the Bomb
; and Gino Segrè, a nuclear physicist and author
of several books on the history of science, including
Faust in Copenhagen
. Alex Wellerstein, a historian at the American Institute
of Physics (which publishes
Physics Today),
writes
about the event on his blog Restricted Data.
