Martin J. Sherwin | |
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Born | Martin Jay Sherwin July 2, 1937 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Died | October 6, 2021 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 84)
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | History of nuclear weapons |
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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. He served on the faculty at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Berkeley, and as the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University, where he founded the Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center.[1]