Sig Hecker, director of the Laboratory from 1986 to 1997, will speak at Fuller Lodge on Aug. 10 during the opening session of the Second Los Alamos International History Conference. The conference, which opens the evening of Aug. 9 with registration and a reception at the Bradbury Science Museum, coincides with a Cold War Film Festival sponsored by the Los Alamos Historical Society and several Cold War-related activities at the museum. Sessions of the Cold War Conference will take place at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos except for the keynote and evening gatherings, which will be at Fuller Lodge. Three sessions will run concurrently, each featuring two or three speakers followed by questions and answers. The approximately 35 sessions will include a wide variety of topics.
Chambers is on the institute faculty and is a former dean.
The Cold War Film Festival will be held Aug. 7 through 9 at the Duane W. Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos. Each of the five films, which were chosen to complement the Cold War conference, will be preceded by a brief discussion and interpretation by film historian Ron Briley. The schedule for Saturday, Aug. 8, features two movies in which a U.S. bomber is ordered to drop bombs on the Soviet Union. The festival is a benefit for the Historical Society, and a portion of the ticket price is tax-deductible. Other seminars are scheduled July 29, Aug. 12 and Aug. 26.