Peter Kuznick is an expert on twentieth-century American history. culture, twentieth-century America, American radicalism American sexuality scientists and politics America Hiroshima and Nagasaki scientists and the Vietnam War Oliver Stone film and history Cold War history of the American Empire Additional Information and international media and has begun his fourth three-year term as Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He regularly provides commentary for all the major U.S.
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He and Oliver Stone co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States. His current projects include a book on scientists and the Vietnam War and another that looks at how the evolving understanding that nuclear war could lead to annihilation of all life on the planet has shaped the behavior and views of military strategists, policymakers, and the public. As part of this effort, he cofounded the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy and the Nuclear Education Project with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and professors Mark Selden and John Dower. In 2003, Kuznick organized a group of scholars, writers, artists, clergy, and activists to protest the Smithsonian's celebratory display of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum annex. The Institute was named the most creative and innovative summer program in North America by the North American Association of Summer Sessions. Every summer, since 1995, he has taken Institute students on a study-abroad class in Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. That year, on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings, his Institute co-hosted a major exhibit with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which displayed many of the artifacts that were originally supposed to be part of the Smithsonian’s ill-fated Enola Gay exhibit. In 1995, he founded American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute. He was active in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements and remains active in antiwar and nuclear abolition efforts.
Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, is author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America (University of Chicago Press), co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives (Horitsu Bunkasha, 2010), co-author with Yuki Tanaka of Genpatsu to hiroshima - genshiryoku heiwa riyo no shinso (Nuclear Power and Hiroshima: The Truth Behind the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power (Iwanami, 2011), and co-editor with James Gilbert of Rethinking Cold War Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press). View CV ( PDF) Peter Kuznick Professor Department of History Contact (202) 885-2408Īdditional Positions at AU Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute Degrees PhD, Rutgers UniversityMA, Rutgers UniversityBA, Rutgers University