Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests (1958-1962 : Geneva, Switzerland)

Scope and Contents of the Collection Papers received in 1981 include information about earthquake projects Press worked on for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); and correspondence, minutes, reports, and budgets from the American Geophysical Union of which Press was a member, serving as president, 1974-1976. His years as an Executive Council member of the National Academy of Sciences are documented in papers, programs, and minutes; and correspondence, proposals, and reports describe his consulting for several...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, notes, photographs, reports, articles, and speeches document Fisk's work on atomic fission. A diary describes his trip to Italy, 1943 1944, to contact other scientists and identify important scientific documents. Correspondence with Vannevar Bush provides details about Fisk's consulting work for the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. There is information about Fisk's assignment as head of a delegation of scientists sent to Geneva...