Physics and Secrecy
APS April Meeting 2010
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secrecy surrounded the hidden physics laboratories of the wartime Manhattan Project and has continued to linger around many research topics related to military matters.
At session B5 Harvard physics historian Peter Galison will look at the legacy of our post-Cold War secrecy systems, while Steven Aftergood, who runs a government secrecy program at the Federation of American Scientists, will present the current landscape of secrecy. William Happer, a former official at the Department of Energy and now a professor at Princeton, will discuss how to arrive at the right balance between openness and secrecy.
Related April Meeting Session
Session B5: Secrecy and Physics
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