[H-PAD] Fwd: Announcement and Link for Saturday's Webinar on A Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--Please circulate widely

[Van Gosse]

This needs to go out today!

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Subject: Announcement and Link for Saturday's Webinar on A Bombing of
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*What Every Global Citizen Needs to Know About the Decision to A-Bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki*


The debate over the atomic bombings—a controversy that forced the
Smithsonian Institution to abandon its Enola Gay exhibit 25 years
ago—continues unabated in America today as we approach the 75th anniversary
of the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Four historians, Gar
Alperovitz, Martin Sherwin, Kai Bird, and Peter Kuznick, each of whom has
written extensively on the topic, will discuss the documentary evidence and
assess the current state of knowledge about the bombings in a webinar open
to people from around the world. Internationally acclaimed poet Carolyn
Forché will moderate. The webinar will critically explore in depth the
“official” explanation that use of the atomic bombs was the only way to
force the fanatically resistant Japanese to surrender without an Allied
invasion that would have cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. and British and
an even greater number of Japanese lives. Attendance is free and open to
the general public. A question and answer period will follow the
presentations.


Date: July 25, 2020
Time: 1pm EST
https://american.zoom.us/j/94643113866?pwd=c2VnWmdUR0NuakRDNXY0QjVVZmtXZz09
For more information, contact Peter Kuznick pkuznick at aol.com or
Glenn Marcus dcguy614 at aol.com*.*


Speakers include:
Gar Alperovitz, formerly a Fellow of Kings College Cambridge, the Institute
of Politics at Harvard, and Lionel Bauman Professor of Political Economy at
the University of Maryland, is the author of *Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima
and Potsdam *and *The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb*. He is currently a
Principal of The Democracy Collaborative, an independent research
institution in Washington, D.C.

Martin Sherwin, University Professor of History, George Mason University,
is author of *A World Destroyed*: *Hiroshima and Its Legacies *winner of
the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relation’s Bernath Book
Prize, co-author with Kai Bird of *American Prometheus: The Triumph and
Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer* winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for
biography, and *Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima
to the Cuban Missile Crisis, *forthcoming in September 2020.

Kai Bird, Executive Director, CUNY Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for
Biography, co-author (with Martin Sherwin) Pulitzer Prize-winning *American
Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,* co-editor
(with Lawrence Lifschultz) *Hiroshima’s Shadow*, and author *The Chairman:
John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment.*

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History, Director, Nuclear Studies Institute,
American University, co-author (with Akira Kimura), *Rethinking the Atomic
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American
Perspectives,* co-author
(with Oliver Stone) of the *New York Times *best-selling *The Untold
History of the United States* (books and documentary film series), and
author “The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb and
the Apocalyptic Narrative.”

Carolyn Forché’s first book of poetry, *Gathering the Tribes*, won the Yale
Series of Younger Poets Prize, and was followed by *The Country Between Us,
The Angel of History*, and *Blue Hour.* In March, 2020, Penguin Press
published her fifth collection of poems, *In the Lateness of the World. *She
is also the author of the memoir *What You Have Heard Is True* (Penguin
Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan
E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her international
anthology, *Against Forgetting*, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as
“itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” In
1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima
Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and
the preservation of memory and culture. She is one of the first poets to
receive the Wyndham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library at Yale University, and is a University Professor at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Webinar sponsors include:

American Friends Service Committee's Peace & Economic Security Program
American University Nuclear Studies Institute
Article 9 Canada
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the Greater DC Area
Historians for Peace and Democracy
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown
Los Alamos Study Group
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Peace Action
Peace Culture Village
Peace Philosophy Centre (Vancouver, Canada)
PEAC Institute
Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future
United for Peace and Justice
Western States Legal Foundation
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) USA
World Beyond War
Youth Arts New York/Hibakusha Stories



-- 
Van Gosse
Professor of History and Chair of Africana Studies
Franklin and Marshall College
717-615-4708
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