Events & Reunions

Sponsored by:

Tufts Alumni Greece

Location:
Megaron Karatza
Aiolou 82-84
Athens, Greece | See Map

When: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:30 pm (iCal)

Description

Tufts Alumni Greece invites you to a presentation by one of Tufts’ most preeminent scholars, Martin Sherwin, followed by cocktails.

Oppenheimer's Legacy: A Nuclear World and President Obama Abolition Vision During his 63 years (1904-1967) J. Robert Oppenheimer engaged the great transformative forces that roiled the twentieth century: quantum physics; the communist movement, and atomic weapons. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he sought to exorcise the atomic demon he had strived so mightily to conceive. In this effort to prevent a nuclear arms race, he failed. But President Obama's recent commitment to seek the global abolition of nuclear weapons links Oppenheimer's nuclear world to ours.

Martin J. Sherwin is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History Emeritus at Tufts University, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow. He was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography for American Prometheus, his book (written with biographer Kai Bird) on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer; the work also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best biography. Sherwin is also the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize.

This event is kindly sponsored by the National Bank of Greece.

RSVP

Please RSVP (limited seating) at info@tuftsclub.gr or +30 210.6204176.

Cost

There is no charge for this event.

Contact

If you have any questions, you can find more information on Tufts Club Greece at www.tuftsclub.gr, or contact us at info@tuftsclub.gr or +30 210.6204176.