Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84,
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FILE - In this Monday, April 17, 2006, file photo, author Martin J. Sherwin, poses for a photo in Washington. Sherwin, a leading scholar of atomic weapons who in A World Destroyed challenged support for the U.S. bombing of Japan and spent more than two decades researching the pioneering physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus, has died at age 84. Sherwin died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at his home in Washington, D.C., according to his friend Andrew Hartman, a professor of history at Illinois State University. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)