Workshop
Nuclear Experts and Nuclear Expertise in a Global Context after 1945
Conveners: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler, Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse
Monday, Oct. 6, 2014
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Introduction
Carola Sachse
University of Vienna, Austria
9:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Panel 1 | Nuclear Experts and Counter Expertise
Chair: Gabriele Metzler
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Ibrahim Al-Marashi
California State University, San Marcos, CA, USA
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation
Mauro Elli
University of Padua, Italy
Nuclear Experts and the Industry: Overlapping Trajectories of Politics, Economics and Knowledge
Benjamin Wilson
Stanford University, CA, USA
Nuclear Arms Control: Expertise, Ideas, and the State, 1957-1977
Waqar Zaidi
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
James T. Shotwell and the Struggle for Atomic Expertise, 1945-1947
11.45 a.m. - 1.15 p.m.
Panel 2 | Nuclear Knowledge
Chair: Holger Nehring
University of Stirling, UK
Mara Drogan
Siena College, Loudonville, NY, USA
“Delicate Matters Requiring Expert Consideration”: Political Goals versus Technological Realities in Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Program
Sebastian Vehlken
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
The Age of Hypotheticality: Wolf Häfele and the “German Manhattan Project”
Taka Daitoku
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“It’s what you don’t see that matters the most”: Shigaki Minro, the Cabinet Research Staff, and the Reshaping of the Community of Nuclear Knowledge in Japan, 1964-70
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Panel 3 | Transnational Networks
Chair: Carola Sachse
University of Vienna, Austria
Alison Kraft
University of Sheffield, UK
Nuclear “Fallout”: A Case Study of Scientific Dissent in Early Cold War Britain and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement, c. 1954-1957
Christoph Laucht
Swansea University, UK
British Professionals, Nuclear Expertise and the Prevention of Nuclear War in the 1980s
Sibylle Marti
University of Zürich, Switzerland
A Network for Radiation Safety: Swiss Radiation Protection Experts in the “Glocal” Cold War
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014
9:00- 10:30 a.m.
Panel 4 |Expert vs Government and Others
Chair: Alison Kraft
University of Sheffield, UK
Anna Weichselbraun
University of Chicago, IL, USA
Nuclear Experts at the IAEA: Safeguards Inspectors and the Verification of the NPT
Christian Marx
University of Trier, Germany
Nuclear Experts and Economic Interests in West Germany at the End of the Boom
Karin Zachmann
Technical University Munich, Germany
Peaceful Atoms in Agriculture and Food: How the Politics of the Cold War Shaped Agricultural Research with Isotopes and Radiation in Divided Germany in the 1950s
10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel 5 | Effects of Expertise
Chair: Mark Walker
Union College, New York, USA
Angela N. Creager
Princeton University, NJ, USA/MPI for the History of Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Nuclear Waste and Environment Expertise at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Lachlan Clohesy
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Nuclear Experts and an Atomic Australia
Linda Richards
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Health Physics: Uncertainty and the Taint Inside
Matthias Englert/Anne I. Harrington
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Disembodying the Power of Nuclear Weapons: Experts and the Materiality and Governance of Nuclear Technologies
14.00-15.30
Where do we go from here?
Chair: Gabriele Metzler
Humboldt University, Berlin
Holger Nehring
University of Stirling, UK
Concluding Remarks
