By Conor Donlevy On December 2, 1942, Manhattan Project scientists working at the University of Chicago (including our sister organization’s founder, Leo Szilard) created the first sustained, man-made nuclear chain reaction underneath the stands of a football field using a pile of graphite and uranium. The reactor was dubbed the “Chicago Pile-1” and its success […]
Conor Donlevy
Introducing the Newest Member of the Center Team: Conor Donlevy
By Conor Donlevy I first came across the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation as a young congressional staffer working for Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. As a recent college graduate eager to get involved in foreign policy but employed as the Senator’s driver, I asked our foreign policy advisor for any task he felt […]
