Manhattan Project 2010
Entering the Atomic Age: The Manhattan Project, May 20-25
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With MIT alumnus
Gino Segre PhD '63
5 nights/6 days
• 3 nights Santa Fe
• 2 nights Albuquerque
Co-Shares: Exclusive to MIT community members
Maximum group size: 25 travelers
The development of the atomic bomb was the most dramatic change in the meaning of armed conflict in world history. Its legacy has bedeviled international relations in the 65 years since the end of the Second World War, and continues as a threat, as proliferation of knowledge, fissionable material, and modern weapons continue its steady progress.
Join us as we delve into topics related to the Manhattan Project. Visit the main Los Alamos locations: Fuller Lodge and S Site, where top scientists solved complicated technical problems, often with slide rules and pencils. Tour the locations in Santa Fe where, under the nose of the FBI, Soviet agents met scientists who passed vital information. Finally there will be a private visit to the remote location of the Trinity test where the first nuclear explosion took place. Leading our lecture series is MIT alumnus Gino Segre PhD '63, professor of physics and astronomy at University of Pennsylvania.
For the special tour arranged at Los Alamos, all participants need to have U.S. citizenship.
If you have any questions or to make a reservation, please call the MIT Alumni Travel Program at 800-992-6749, or email us at compass@mit.edu.
