Peter J. Kuznick, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers, 1984.

U.S. cultural, nuclear, Cold War, and recent American history, and history of
science.

The author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political
Activists in 1930's America and co-editor of Rethinking Cold War
Culture, he is currently writing a book about scientists' opposition
to the Vietnam War. As director of American University's
award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute (www.american.edu/nsi), he
takes students on an annual study abroad trip to Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. He spearheaded the Committee for a National Discussion of
Nuclear History and Current Policy (www.enola-gay.org) in response to
the Smithsonian's recent Enola Gay exhibit and co-founded the Nuclear
Education Project. He writes often and lectures frequently about
nuclear issues in general and the atomic bombings in particular. He
has recently completed a historically based Hollywood screenplay and
teaches the path-breaking course Oliver Stone's America. He regularly
provides commentary to the media on a broad range of subjects and was
selected Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer,
2004-2007.

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kuznick@american.edu