Peter N. Kirstein is a Professor of History at St. Xavier University and Vice President of the American Association of University Professors, Illinois. He is the author of “Challenges to Academic Freedom since 9/11,” in The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape , ed. Matthew J. Morgan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). The author would like to thank Judith A. Dwyer for granting him a sabbatical to write this article and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.
Hiroshima and Spinning the Atom: America, Britain, and Canada Proclaim the Nuclear Age, 6 August 1945
Article first published online: 4 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00251.x
© 2009 Phi Alpha Theta
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Kirstein, P. N. (2009), Hiroshima and Spinning the Atom: America, Britain, and Canada Proclaim the Nuclear Age, 6 August 1945. Historian, 71: 805–827. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00251.x
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- Issue published online: 4 DEC 2009
- Article first published online: 4 DEC 2009
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