A course that has been taught here for years, Nuclear Weapons
and Nuclear Warfare, is enjoying renewed interest in the wake
of fears about weapons of mass destruction.
The class teaches not only about the physics and technological
aspects of nuclear weapons but covers ethical, legal and social
dimensions.
The course also has a community research component. The instructor,
Michael Wiescher, Freimann Professor of Physics, grew up in British-occupied
Germany following World War II. He has students examine the fallout
patterns of nuclear tests in the West in the 1950s. That fallout
reached South Bend.
(April 2005)
