140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

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Join us for an engaging discussion on the lead up to the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, 76 years after that historic day, between author David Dean Barrett and the Museum’s Senior Historian Rob Citino, PhD.

David Dean Barrett is a military historian, specializing in World War II. He has published work in WWII Quarterly Magazine, U.S. Military History Review, and Global War Studies. He is the Historical Consultant / Producer for Lou Reda Productions' two-hour documentary, titled Heroes of the Sky: The Mighty Eighth Air Force, which aired as a primetime global event on National Geographic in late May of 2020. David has been a frequent guest speaker for more than a decade on the use of the atomic bomb in the final days of World War II and the end of the Pacific War.




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