LANL Senior Historian Alan B. Carr

MOWW News:

This month’s meeting of The Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) is Tuesday, May 20. The speaker Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Senior Historian Alan B. Carr.

The Laboratory’s first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, lived a fascinating, controversial and enormously consequential life. Carr will interpret various aspects of Oppenheimer’s career using rarely seen documents and objects from the historical collections of LANL’s National Security Research Center and other notable repositories.

Carr will share rare images of Oppenheimer, learn about his Nobel-nominated science, see documents pertaining to his security hearing ordeal, and even hear Oppenheimer tell a joke or two.

This month’s meeting will be held on Zoom only – not in-person. The meeting will begin with a social period starting at 6 p.m. followed at 6:30 p.m. with a brief business meeting and at about 7:15 p.m. Carr will begin in presentation.

The MOWW meetings are open to all at no cost. Zoom will start at about 6 p.m. of which details will be provided in a reminder email two days before the meeting.

Direct questions to Commander Gregg Giesler at 505.603.8239 or email at g.giesler@computer.org.

About The Military Order of the World Wars:

An Act of Congress chartered the Military Order of the World Wars in 1919 as a national patriotic organization. The principal objectives of the MOWW are continuing service to the Nation, and patriotic educational opportunity for the nation’s youth and citizens. Current youth programs are focused upon annual Youth Leadership Conferences for high school students presented in New Mexico by its related Sunbelt Patriotic Youth Leadership Conferences, Inc. Current, former and retired federally commissioned officers of all branches of the United States Uniformed Services are eligible for membership in the MOWW and are especially invited to attend our meetings.

For additional information about MOWW membership, call Commander Gregg Giesler at 505.662.5574.