How Nuclear Weapons Work

Name: How Nuclear Weapons Work
Start: 2009-06-09T10:00:00-0400
End: 2009-06-09T11:30:00-0400

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: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

The partly disassembled heart of the Fat Man bomb showing the explosive lenses.

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.