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Past Event
Seminar

How Nuclear Weapons Work

Open to the Public

Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy, will present a seminar entitled "How Nuclear Weapons Work," on Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 10am in the Belfer Center Library.

All are welcome and invited to attend.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
The partly disassembled heart of the Fat Man bomb showing the explosive lenses.

About

The Managing the Atom Project is initiating a summer seminar series entitled “Nuclear 101,” presenting overviews of key issues affecting the future of nuclear weapons, energy, and nonproliferation policies.  Topics will include:

  • Uranium enrichment and plutonium production
  • Nuclear weapons strategy
  • IAEA safeguards
  • Technologies + approaches for securing nuclear facilities and transports
  • Nuclear weapons operations/ de-alerting

The seminars will generally take place in the Belfer Center library, from 10:00-11:30 on Tuesdays in June and July; topics on specific dates to be determined.