Hosted by historian Vincent Intondi, this event seeks to memorialize the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Join us in person in the Flora T. Little Meeting Room at the Bridgewater Public Library, or on Zoom! Offered by the Bridgewater International City of Peace in collaboration with the Massachusetts Peace Action.

Vincent Intondi is a Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. From 2009-2017, Intondi was Director of Research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to teaching at Montgomery College, Intondi was an Associate Professor of History at Seminole State College in Sanford, Florida. Intondi regularly works with organizations exploring ways to include more diverse voices in the nuclear disarmament movement. His research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He is the author of the books, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).