Oppenheimer: The Rest Of The Story – A Lecture By Dr. Siegfried Hecker In Dialogue With Alan Carr Feb. 13

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on February 1, 2024
- 1:29 pm

Dr. Siegfried Hecker

Los Alamos Historical Society News:

The community is invited to join the Los Alamos Historical Society for its monthly Lecture Series featuring Dr. Siegfried Hecker and Senior Historian Alan Carr. The lecture will take place 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in the Duane Smith Auditorium.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer has captured the interest of nearly 100 million people around the world. Dr. Hecker will share his views on the legacy of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, based on his more than five-decades associated with the laboratory Oppenheimer led. He will be joined by Los Alamos National Laboratory Senior Historian Alan Carr.

Siegfried Hecker is the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Professor Emeritus of Stanford University. He is Professor of Practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 34 years, including serving as its fifth director from 1986 through 1997. He was at Stanford University for 17 years in the School of Engineering. Dr. Hecker has worked on nuclear matters for most of his career, including visits to all countries with declared nuclear weapons programs. Dr. Hecker is the editor of Doomed to Cooperate (2016), a two volume set documenting the history of the Russian-U.S. laboratory-to-laboratory cooperation, and Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program (2023) written with Elliot Serbin.

LANL Senior Historian Alan Carr

Alan B. Carr serves as a Program Manager and the Senior Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his tenure as a laboratory historian, which began in 2003, Carr has produced several publications and lectures pertaining to the Manhattan Project, nuclear testing history, and the historical evolution of LANL. He has lectured for numerous professional organizations and has been featured as a guest on many local, national, and international radio and television programs. Before coming to Los Alamos, Carr completed his graduate studies at Texas Tech University.

For more information, visit the Los Alamos Historical Society’s website www.losalamoshistory.org.