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Tufts Alumni Istanbul

Location:
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Emirgan, İstanbul | See Map

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00 pm (iCal)

Description

Tufts Alumni Istanbul 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.

RSVP

Please RSVP by email Zeynep Erataman at zeyneperataman@yahoo.com.

Cost

There is no charge for this event.

Contact

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