This weekend, May 12-13, at the Santa Fe Institute, a
hand-picked group of physicists, historians, social scientists,
systems theorists, and writers will examine the long-term
legacies of the Manhattan Project in a timely discussion of an
important event in world history that still influences science
and society today. Harold Agnew, who was part of the historic
effort to develop the first atomic bomb, will participate in the
discussion.
SFI is collaborating with the Nuclear Diner to bring the
discussion to you live on Twitter.
You can participate before, during, and after by searching for the
hashtag #bomblegacy or following @nucleardiner. Before
the event, you can also leave questions at Nuclear Diner and the Facebook
event page.
The group will discuss new information, review original
records, and mine the memories of project participants to
present a case study in conflict from an important period in
scientific history.
More about the Santa Fe Institute working group,
including biographies of the participants and discussion
topics, here.
Many of SFI’s founders were senior fellows at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. As the Institute has emerged as a leader in
complexity science, particularly in working toward a theory of
conflict in human and animal societies, the Manhattan Project
has become an important case study for understanding conflict.
The project’s history also illustrates the occasional tension
between pure theoretical research and applied science.
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