UI professor concerned with the stars, first strikes
By Greg Kline
Sunday October 3, 2004
by John Dixon
University of Illinois Professor Fred Lamb, seen in a classroom in the UI's Loomis Lab in Urbana, has made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of astrophysics, but he's also stayed on the forefront of research on nuclear arms control.
Fred Lamb's voice hitches with emotion as he recalls the time his parents asked their science-oriented teen-age son whether they should build a bomb shelter.
The Cold War was hot and the chances of an even hotter atomic shooting war between the United States and the former Soviet Union didn't seem like long odds, when Lamb, now a University of Illinois professor, went to the library in his hometown of Manhattan, Kan., to research his parents' question. Among other things, he waded into a government report on the effects of nuclear weapons.
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