Attention:

Scholars/Students involved in the

history of nuclear weapons

science and technology

Dear Friends,

For the last five years, I've been pressing the cultural resource people at Hanford/DOE-Richland to consider nuclear historians and historians of cold war science and technology as irreplaceable, and important stake-holders in their Hanford History interpretative activities. It's an uphill struggle. Every year or so, I have to make the same argument to another new contractor, who is unaware of the rich literature in cold war sci/tech/nuke history that has been published in the last 15 years in such journals as Isis, Technology and Culture, Social Studies of Science, and other specialist outlets. In order to make the case that more than a handful of history of science people, especially junior scholars, are deeply interested in the history of the nuclear weapons production complex, I am compiling a list of people who have conducted research -- written dissertations, books, or articles -- on the topic. Scholars who have not yet made contact with me, please email me: sghamari@gsu.edu

Many thanks. Sharon Ghamari