He has taught about the world’s first nuclear war for 57 years, and has spent 15 summers of study and exploration in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several of those summers as a Visiting Scholar at a Hiroshima university which lost 352 female students and 20 faculty and staff to the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. The Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine (Winter 2005) has a highly readable article “Nuclear Options” that presents some of Professor Wilson’s work in this area. He is also the author of “Fourier Series and Optical Transform Techniques in Contemporary Optics: An Introduction,” published by John Wiley and Sons in May 1995.