Published: June 3, 2020, 2:49 p.m.
Peter Kuznick is an expert on twentieth-century American history. He can comment on Japanese and American nuclear culture, the history of American sexuality, U.S. cultural history, the 1930s, the 1960s, Vietnam, Cold War and nuclear history, and American radicalism. Kuznick is director of AU’s Nuclear Studies Institute. A proponent of nuclear disarmament, Kuznick is a critic of the U.S. decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, speaking frequently on the topic. He co-founded the Nuclear Education Project along with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and professors Mark Selden (Cornell University) and John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Kuznick was an active participant in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. He also is an expert on film and history and teaches a popular course that uses Oliver Stone’s films to examine recent American history. The Untold History of the United States, a 10-part documentary film series on Showtime that Kuznick coauthored with Oliver Stone. Kuznick and Stone's coauthored book, The Untold History of the United States, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2012.