Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Rhodes to Deliver Banquet Address at the Plutonium Futures – The Science Conference 2010

Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in History; an investigation of the roots of private violence, Why They Kill; a personal memoir, A Hole in the World; a biography, John James Audubon; and four novels. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. A third volume of nuclear history, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, was published in October 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf. It examines the international politics of nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. His fourth and last volume of nuclear history, The Twilight of the Bombs, will be published just prior to the Conference. It examines the post-Cold War years after 1991, securing the former Soviet nuclear arsenal, the first Iraq War, nuclear proliferation, North Korea, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the run-up to the second Iraq War and the prospects for nuclear abolition. With the completion of this last volume, his quartet of nuclear histories, The Making of the Nuclear Age, comprehends the story of the introduction of a historic new technology across more than one hundred years. Mr. Rhodes will deliver the banquet address at the Plutonium Futures – The Science Conference in Keystone, Colorado, September 22, 2010. For more information on Richard Rhodes visit: http://www.richardrhodes.com.