BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211115T155250Z UID:3F5D2616-0521-4E54-80A4-74119BDCA079 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20211109T140000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20211109T153000 DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Long Island Section Life Member Affinity Group is hold ing a meeting and inviting retired and senior engineers and all interested parties. The meeting will be in the Jericho Public Library\, 1 Merry Lane \, Jericho\, NY 11753. The featured speaker will be Alex Wellerstein\, Ass istant Professor and David & G.G. Farber Faculty Fellow in Science and Tec hnology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology.\n\nSpeaker(s): Alex We llerstein\, \n\nAgenda: \nTopic - The Button and the Bomb: Electrical Engi neering and Nuclear Weapons\n\nAbstract - Most accounts of nuclear weapons development and design have focused almost exclusively on the contributio ns of physicists. While these are indeed important\, especially to the ear ly history of nuclear weapons\, this approach has tended to overlook the w ays in which many of the most important and interesting developments in th ese weapons have come from electrical engineering. In this talk\, Prof. We llerstein will go over the once-Top Secret ways in which electrical engine ering contributed to the development of nuclear weapons\, and will illustr ate how these contributions are actually what lie behind some of the trick ier political questions relating to the use and non-use of nuclear weapons \, both historically and in the present day.\n\nAdditionally\, Prof. Welle rstein will outline what is known about the most recently unveiled alleged Soviet spy\, Oscar Seborer\, a City College electrical engineer\, and his potential contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb project. Seborer worked on the Manhattan Project\, the effort to build an atomic bomb\, at the Cl inton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge\, Tennessee\, and then at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.\n\nJericho Public Library\, 1 Merry Lane\, Jeri cho\, New York\, United States\, 11753 LOCATION:Jericho Public Library\, 1 Merry Lane\, Jericho\, New York\, Unite d States\, 11753 ORGANIZER:dmgrieco@optonline.net SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:The Long Island Life Member Affinity Group Senior Engineer’s Meet ing URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/283081 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The IEEE Long Island Section Life Member A ffinity Group is holding a meeting and inviting retired and senior enginee rs and all interested parties. The meeting will be in the Jericho Public L ibrary\, 1 Merry Lane\, Jericho\, NY 11753. The featured speaker will be A lex Wellerstein\, Assistant Professor and David &amp\; G.G. Farber Faculty Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technolo gy.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>Topic - The Button and the Bomb: Elect rical Engineering and Nuclear Weapons</p>\n<p>Abstract - Most accounts of nuclear weapons development and design have focused almost exclusively on the contributions of physicists. While these are indeed important\, especi ally to the early history of nuclear weapons\, this approach has tended to overlook the ways in which many of the most important and interesting dev elopments in these weapons have come from electrical engineering. In this talk\, Prof. Wellerstein will go over the once-Top Secret ways in which el ectrical engineering contributed to the development of nuclear weapons\, a nd will illustrate how these contributions are actually what lie behind so me of the trickier political questions relating to the use and non-use of nuclear weapons\, both historically and in the present day.</p>\n<p>Additi onally\, Prof. Wellerstein will outline what is known about the most recen tly unveiled alleged Soviet spy\, Oscar Seborer\, a City College electrica l engineer\, and his potential contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb pro ject. Seborer worked on the Manhattan Project\, the effort to build an ato mic bomb\, at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge\, Tennessee\, and th en at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR