Companies as a Public Service and brought you today, your television provider. Up next, the Manhattan Project is a subject of a lecture by George Mason University history professor Martin Sherman is the author of a world destroyed, harris she met and its like a cease and a coauthor of a pulitzer winner, mr. Sherman details the development of the atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery efficient in 1938 through the use of atomic bombs in cities like kawasaki and hershey. The event was hosted in washington d. C. It is just under two hours. Our speaker tonight is martin sure. When hes the professor at the history at martin mason. Hes also the author of a world destroyed, the atomic bomb and the world, alliance which won the historic foreign relations, as well as the american book prize. It was a 1975 finalist for it is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Hes held appointments at the cardoza fund, visiting as this thing professor at American History at Yale University and as the burnet
Hes held appointments at the corridors of fun visiting dutch fund. O at the cardozo berkeley,ght at uc princeton, dartmouth and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the in 2007, heer was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. Please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [applause] sherwin thank you. Is it working . Yeah . Good. Thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that in introduction. I hope you liked it. [laughter] prof. Sherwin it was more wholesome because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Here toly glad to be speak about this topic. Subjectit is a kind of that needs to be reviewed again and again and again. Because, unfortunately, the Nuclear Issue is still with us and it looks like it will be with us for a very long time. Ive had a chance to chat with a few of you. That those ive c
American Foreign Relations as well as the American History book prize. It was a 1976 finalist for both the nationalist book award and the Pulitzer Prize and the current paper back edition of a world destroyed is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Visiting as the fund visiting professor of American History. And is a visiting professor at wellesley college. Hes taught at uc berkeley and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the institute for the advanced stud and the Woodrow Wilson National Center for scholars. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. So please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [ applause ] okay, thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that int introducti introduction. I hope you liked it. It was more folsom because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Im re
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