"Hiroshima to Geneva: Reflections of a Nuclear Physicist"

Thursday, February 2, 2006

IPJ Speaker Series

7 p.m.

IPJ Theatre

Co-Sponsored by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and the San Diego World Affairs Council, "Hiroshima to Geneva: Reflections of a Nuclear Physicist," is an interview with Dr. Herbert York, founding chancellor of UCSD and Director Emeritus of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He will be interviewed by Donald Gragg, president of the Continuing Education Center at Rancho Bernardo and a Past President of the San Diego World Affairs Council.

While a graduate student of the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. York was recruited to work on uranium production for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first atomic bomb.  He subsequently was the founding Director of the Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory; a Science Advisor to Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson; chief scientist of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency; and senior consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. During the Carter Administration, Dr. York served as U.S. Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban talks.