President George H.W. Bush made opening remarks (via video) at this one-day conference – sponsored by the nation's 13 Presidential Libraries – that examined how the Presidency and US foreign policy have been reshaped by the advent, use and spread of nuclear weapons.
The first panel, The Race to Build the Bomb and the Decision to Use It, featured Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb; Wilson D. Miscamble, Professor of History and University of Notre Dame; and Jennet Conant, author of 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos.
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