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Session IV: Proshansky Auditorium

The Manhattan Project: Place, People and Power

Friday October 17, 2008
3:00 to 5:00 pm
Moderator—TBD 
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.

Featuring:
Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra, Photographers
Talk: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project

Harold Agnew, Former Director, the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talk: Chicago, Los Alamos, Tinian Island and the Atomic Bomb

Selected Manhattan Project Veterans

In collaboration with the Met, the CUNY symposia are presented by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and funded in part by the National Science Foundation, as well as by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.