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The New Nuclear Threat - Seymour Hersh
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Seymour Hersh is an investigative reporter whose most recent book The Sampson Option examines Israel's nuclear capacity.He is the winner of the National Book Award for The Price of Power, a study of Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration, and a Pulitzer for uncovering the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Nightmare in Paradise: Nuclear Devastation in the Pacific - Glenn Alcalay
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

The Presidency and the Bomb - Hugh Sidey
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Hugh Sidey is the Washington contributing editor for Time and author of the magazine's column "The Presidency" which he started at Life magazine in 1966. he has covered 9 presidents, authored or contributed to 5 books on the presidency and is a regular on television's "inside Washington." He graduated from Iowa State in 1950. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War - Carole Gallagher
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Carole Gallagher devoted ten years to photographing and researching her book American Ground Zero. This book illustrates the human costs of testing more that atomic bombs which scattered radiation over most areas of the United States. She was director of the Nuclear Towns Documentary Project and taught at the University of Utah and her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Hiroshima Poets and Atomic Holocaust - Richard Minear
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Richard Minear is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. He is the editor and translator of Yoshida Misuru's Requiem for Battleship Yamato and Hiroshima: Three Witnesses and the author of Japanese Tradition and Western Law: Emperor, State, and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka and Victor's Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: New Facts and Old Myths - Gar Alperovitz
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gar Aperovitz is president of the national Center for Economic Alternatives, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland and fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. His books include Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam, Rebuilding America, Strategy and Program, Cold War Essays and a book on the decision to bomb Hiroshima to be published in 1995. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Ames and the Manhhattan Project: Reflections - Harley Wilhelm, Adolph Voight and David Peterson
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Harely Wilhelm, Adolph Voight and David Peterson of Ames Lab will recall their roles in the secret World War II effort known as the Manhattan Project when over 1,000 ISU personnel produced 1,000 pounds of pure uranium for the first atomic weapons. professor Wayne Osborn, who teaches the history of war and peace, will moderate. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Nuclear Abolition - Ted Taylor
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ted Taylor designed nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and nuclear reactors and nuclear space propulsion at General Atomic Company in San Diego. he was deputy director for technology of the Defense Nuclear Agency in the Pentagon, founded International Research and Technology corporation and was named by President Carter to the Commission on the Accident at Three mile Island,. He also founded NOVA, Inc., a renewable energy company. Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

Winning Job Search in the 1990's - Roxanne Rogers
All Day – 101 Carver - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

A Reading - Judith Ortiz- Cofer
All Day – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.