Jones E.M. Where is everybody? An Account of Fermi’s Question [DOE Technical Report] // Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985. — 20 pp. — [01.03.1985]

Fermi’s famous question, now central to debates about the prevalence of extraterrestrial civilizations, arose during a luncheon conversation with Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and Herbert York in the summer of 1950. Fermi’s companions on that day have provided accounts of the incident.