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STARKVILLE, Miss.--A key administrator with a major branch of the Smithsonian Institution will speak Jan. 31 at Mississippi State.
Sponsored by the university's history department, the public program featuring Barton C. Hacker begins at 7 p.m. in the first-floor auditorium of Mitchell Memorial Library. He is curator of military and diplomatic history at the Washington, D.C., institution's popular National Museum of American History.
"Crisscrossing the Atlantic: Historical Patterns of Military Technology Transfer between Europe and America" will be Hacker's topic.
Before joining the Smithsonian, the University of Chicago doctoral graduate was historian for the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the top U.S. research and development institute for technology applied to national security.
He is the author, among others, of "The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942-46" (1987).
For more information on the program, contact history department head Alan Marcus at (662) 325-7075 or aimarcus@history.msstate.edu.