Schedule ``Physicists and the Bomb'' Fall 2000
as of Nov 15, 2000

Date	Topic	Assignment
9/6	Introduction, Europe and US, Szilard Film	Read Rhodes: Ch. 1-4; pp. 13-103
9/11	`Modern' and Nuclear physics and	Read Wolfson: Ch. 1, 2; pp. 1-38, Guidelines for research paper.
9/13	the beginnings of `Big Science'	Study Dawn of the Atomic Age. Read Rhodes: Ch. 5, 6.
9/18	Fission	Study Invention and Discovery: Atomic Bombs and Fission
9/20	Refugees, WWII begins	Read Rhodes: Ch. 7-10
9/25	The birth of Manhattan, US enters the war	Read Rhodes: Ch. 11-13.
9/27	Building the bomb
10/2	Building the bomb	Read Rhodes: Ch. 14-17.
10/4	Trinity test	First quiz
10/9	Film: Day after Trinity	Read Rhodes: Ch. 18
10/11	The decision and the debate	Paper proposal, bibliography due; Finish Rhodes.
10/16	Hiroshima/Nagasaki
10/18	German program	The play Copenhagen
10/23	Civilian control? International control?
10/25	Soviet program, Spies
10/30	USSR
11/1	HUAC, McCarthy, subversives
11/6	Fusion	The H-Bomb
11/8	In the Matter of J.R.O.
11/13	Quiz 2	Film: ``Radio Bikini''
11/15	Energy, Heat Engines, Power Plants	Wolfson, Part II
11/20	Nuclear Power issues	Nuclear Power issues
11/22	Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove	(Day before Thanksgiving)
11/27	Film: Atomic Cafe
11/29	Student presentations
12/4	Student presentations
12/6	Student presentations
12/11	Student presentations
12/13	Last class/Student presentations	Papers due