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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
SUMMARY:The 1991 UN Inspections of Iraq: A Look Back Across Two Decade
 s\, Physics Department Colloquium\, Jay Davis\, President of Hertz Fou
 ndation and Chair of the Physics Department Board of Visitors
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1991\, Jay Davis was asked on five days n
 otice to join a UN inspection team for Iraqi nuclear facilities to det
 ermine whether or not the Iraqis had an active nuclear weapons program
 .  He played leadership\, operational\, and technical roles in assessi
 ng what proved to be an excellent and well-advanced weapons program.  
 There were technical surprises\, obvious intelligence lapses\, occasio
 nal incidents of gunfire\, and other experiences somewhat off the norm
  for physics research.  In consequence\, Davis ended up briefing the U
 N Security Council\, being asked to form a defense agency at DoD\, and
  ending his physics career in a rather different manner than he had pl
 anned.  This talk is a reprise of the first public talk he gave on the
  subject\, a Physics Colloquium in Madison in September 1991.  A stude
 nt of Heinz Barschall\, he is currently President of the Hertz Foundat
 ion and chairs the Board of Visitors for Physics at Wisconsin.  This S
 eptember will be fifty years since he came to Wisconsin as a graduate 
 student.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3178
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