Peter J Kuznick
Biographic Data
| ID | 251037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Kuznick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuznick |
| SIGNATURE | KUZNICK P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0466-0113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nagasaki and the Hibakusha Experience of Sumiteru Taniguchi: The Painful Struggles and Ultimate Triumphs of Nagasaki Hibakusha
Sumiteru Taniguchi was one of the “lucky” ones. He lived a long and productive life. He married and fathered two healthy children who gave him four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He had a long career in Japan's postal and telegraph services. As a leader in Japan's anti-nuclear movement, he addressed thousands of audiences and hundreds of thousands of people. Many of the more than 250,000 who lived in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 were no…
We used chemical weapons in Vietnam: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick explain how telling the untold history can change the world for the better
The Japanese weekly Shukan Kinyobi and The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus jointly interviewed Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, co-authors of The Untold History of the United States, a 10-episode documentary series (broadcast on Showtime Network, 2012-13) and a companion book of the same name (Simon and Schuster, 2012), on August 11 in Tokyo. It was the 8th day of the duo's 12-day tour of Japan, right after they visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to…
"Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the "Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power
In this two part article Yuki Tanaka and Peter Kuznick explore the relationship between the atomic bombing of Japan and that nation's embrace of nuclear power, a relationship that may be entering a new phase with the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima
Defending the Indefensible: A Meditation on the Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr
On November 1, Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., the man who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at his Columbus, Ohio home at age 92. Throughout his adult life, he was a warrior. He bravely fought the Nazis in 1942 and 1943. He fought the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. And he spent the next 62 years fighting to defend the atomic bombings
Prophets of doom or voices of sanity? The evolving discourse of annihilation in the first decade and a half of the nuclear age
The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb and the Apocalyptic Narrative
In his personal narrative Atomic Quest, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arthur Holly Compton, who directed atomic research at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory during the Second World War, tells of receiving an urgent visit from J. Robert Oppenheimer while vacationing in Michigan during the summer of 1942. Oppenheimer and the brain trust he assembled had just calculated the possibility that an atomic explosion could ignite all th…
David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal . Steven M. Neuse
"He "Never Lost Any Sleep: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish Nuclear Legacy
Research Article| October 01 1999 He “Never Lost Any Sleep”: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish Nuclear Legacy Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (75): 131–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-75-131 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Kuznick; He “Never Lost Any Sleep”: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish …
Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age
Research Article| October 01 1995 Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 167–170. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-63-167 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Kuznick; Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age. Radical History Revi…
American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920 . Mark Pittenger
Losing the World of Tomorrow: The Battle Over the Presentation of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair
IN EARLY 1937, WATSON DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE SERVICE, America's leading science news service, expressed the hopes of many members of the scientific community' when he stated: The coming [1939] New York World's Fair should be a major opportunity for ... science popularization.2 That a fair with the stated theme of Building the World of Tomorrow could be predicated on anything but science seemed inconceivable to many scientists. But Davis's pub…
A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator
Journal Article A Different Sort of Time: The Life ofjerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator. By Jack S. Goldstein. (Cambridge: mit Press, 1992. XX + 373 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-26207138-X.) Get access Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 332, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
Science, Politics, and the Cold War . Greta Jones
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
The Political Awakening of American Science
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Journal Article Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1950s America. By Peter J. Kuznick. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 363 pp. $37.50.) Get access George H. Daniels George H. Daniels University of South Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 1000–1001, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901689 Published: …
Losing the World of Tomorrow: The Battle Over the Presentation of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair
IN EARLY 1937, WATSON DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE SERVICE, America's leading science news service, expressed the hopes of many members of the scientific community' when he stated: The coming [1939] New York World's Fair should be a major opportunity for ... science popularization.2 That a fair with the stated theme of Building the World of Tomorrow could be predicated on anything but science seemed inconceivable to many scientists. But Davis's pub…
The Political Awakening of American Science
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Journal Article Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1950s America. By Peter J. Kuznick. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 363 pp. $37.50.) Get access George H. Daniels George H. Daniels University of South Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 1000–1001, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901689 Published: …
Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Science, Politics, and the Cold War . Greta Jones
A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator
Journal Article A Different Sort of Time: The Life ofjerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator. By Jack S. Goldstein. (Cambridge: mit Press, 1992. XX + 373 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-26207138-X.) Get access Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 332, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920 . Mark Pittenger
Losing the World of Tomorrow: The Battle Over the Presentation of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair
IN EARLY 1937, WATSON DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE SERVICE, America's leading science news service, expressed the hopes of many members of the scientific community' when he stated: The coming [1939] New York World's Fair should be a major opportunity for ... science popularization.2 That a fair with the stated theme of Building the World of Tomorrow could be predicated on anything but science seemed inconceivable to many scientists. But Davis's pub…
Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age
Research Article| October 01 1995 Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 167–170. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-63-167 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Kuznick; Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age. Radical History Revi…
David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal . Steven M. Neuse
"He "Never Lost Any Sleep: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish Nuclear Legacy
Research Article| October 01 1999 He “Never Lost Any Sleep”: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish Nuclear Legacy Peter J. Kuznick Peter J. Kuznick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (75): 131–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-75-131 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Kuznick; He “Never Lost Any Sleep”: Coping with Trauman's Nightmarish …
Prophets of doom or voices of sanity? The evolving discourse of annihilation in the first decade and a half of the nuclear age
The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb and the Apocalyptic Narrative
In his personal narrative Atomic Quest, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arthur Holly Compton, who directed atomic research at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory during the Second World War, tells of receiving an urgent visit from J. Robert Oppenheimer while vacationing in Michigan during the summer of 1942. Oppenheimer and the brain trust he assembled had just calculated the possibility that an atomic explosion could ignite all th…
Defending the Indefensible: A Meditation on the Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr
On November 1, Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., the man who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at his Columbus, Ohio home at age 92. Throughout his adult life, he was a warrior. He bravely fought the Nazis in 1942 and 1943. He fought the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. And he spent the next 62 years fighting to defend the atomic bombings
"Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the "Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power
In this two part article Yuki Tanaka and Peter Kuznick explore the relationship between the atomic bombing of Japan and that nation's embrace of nuclear power, a relationship that may be entering a new phase with the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima
We used chemical weapons in Vietnam: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick explain how telling the untold history can change the world for the better
The Japanese weekly Shukan Kinyobi and The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus jointly interviewed Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, co-authors of The Untold History of the United States, a 10-episode documentary series (broadcast on Showtime Network, 2012-13) and a companion book of the same name (Simon and Schuster, 2012), on August 11 in Tokyo. It was the 8th day of the duo's 12-day tour of Japan, right after they visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to…
Nagasaki and the Hibakusha Experience of Sumiteru Taniguchi: The Painful Struggles and Ultimate Triumphs of Nagasaki Hibakusha
Sumiteru Taniguchi was one of the “lucky” ones. He lived a long and productive life. He married and fathered two healthy children who gave him four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He had a long career in Japan's postal and telegraph services. As a leader in Japan's anti-nuclear movement, he addressed thousands of audiences and hundreds of thousands of people. Many of the more than 250,000 who lived in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 were no…
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