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Martin J. Sherwin

Martin J. Sherwin
Martin J. Sherwin, George Mason University Professor of History, is the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and the American History Book prizes, and the coauthor, with Kai Bird, of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006. He and his wife live in Washington, DC, and Colorado.


What We Still Don’t Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin J. Sherwin on the Questions that Remain
October 27, 2020  By Martin J. Sherwin


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