Plowshare Symposium, 1964: Engineering with Nuclear Explosives Page: III

                                
FOREWORD

The Third Plowshare Symposium was held
April 21-23, 1964, in Freeborn Hall at the Univer-
sity of California's Davis Campus. It was spon-
sored by the Department of Applied Sciences, Col-
lege of Engineering, Davis; the American Society
for Engineering Education; the American Nuclear
Society; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Univer-
sity of California; and the U. S. Atomic Energy
Commission.
The theme, "Engineering with Nuclear Ex-
plosives," reflected the major objective of the
Symposium; informing engineers in industry, in
the military, in educational institutions, and in
government agencies throughout the world of the
current state-of-the-art from an engineering

standpoint. The need for such an information ex-
change had been felt for some time by most or-
ganizations engaged in Plowshare activities. Since
the last Plcwshare Symposium in 1959, observa-
tion of a large number of nuclear detonations has
established the reliability of predictions concern-
ing the effects of nuclear explosions. The reli-
ability of these predictions has a direct bearing
on the use of nuclear explosions for civil and in-
dustrial purposes.
This Symposium was attended by 700 visitors
and drew world-wide attention. Other nations
represented at the sessions included the United
Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Mexico,
Switzerland, South Africa, Austria, and Israel.

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