The Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London is holding a nuclear history conference online in July 2020. Academics, veterans of Britain’s nuclear programmes and other researchers from around the world will come together for informal discussions of nuclear history.
John Walker and Tom Ramos will close our conference on 24 July.
John has recently retired from the Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, having worked there since 1985. He will recall for us some of his experiences of on-site inspection exercises for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation.
Tom is a physicist and historian working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His second presentation on the life and work of Ernest O. Lawrence will follow on from his talk on 16 July, taking Lawrence’s story into the cold war years and including his contribution to the foundation of the laboratory that bears his name.
Finally, Richard Moore of King’s College will offer some closing remarks.
Photo caption: Ernest Lawrence, Glenn Seaborg and Robert Oppenheimer after the second world war (photo courtesy of US government/public domain).
