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Martin Jay Sherwin (July 2, 1937 – October 6, 2021) was an American historian. His scholarship mostly concerned the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation .
Oct 9, 2021 · Martin J. Sherwin, a Cold War and nuclear weapons historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for co-writing “American Prometheus,” an exhaustive biography of Manhattan Project director J. Robert...
Oct 12, 2021 · Martin J. Sherwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atom bomb, and a scholar who plumbed the history and impact of the nuclear age, died...
Nov 3, 2021 · A tribute to the historian and biographer of the nuclear age, who co-wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus with Kai Bird. Learn about his life, work, and legacy in this obituary by his friend and collaborator.
Oct 13, 2020 · Martin J. Sherwin’s “Gambling With Armageddon” reveals how the United States and the Soviet Union nearly fought a nuclear war in 1962.
University Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin Sherwin, 84, died Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at home in Washington, D.C. His family said that the cause of death was lung cancer.
Sep 5, 2017 · Martin J. Sherwin was University Professor of History at George Mason University. His most recent book, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the English Speaking Union Book Award.
