On, Sunday, April 7 at 11 am, Congregation Beth Shalom of Clifton Park will sponsor a program where Dr. James Hershberg will be speaking about the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer. Hershberg is a historian of the nuclear arms race and the cold war. His first book, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (1993) examined the making of the atomic bomb, focusing on a figure who was Oppenheimer's boss (and close friend). In addition to authoring several other publications, he is currently a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington Universit. Hershberg also ran the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project. 

He has extensive connections in the Albany Jewish community. Both sets of grandparents, Ethel and Bill Ackerman, and Ben and Ann Hershberg were long time leaders in the community as well as his uncles Dan Hershberg and Dr. Lewis Morrison.

Following the lecture will be a luncheon, also at the synagogue, hosted by Phyllis and Lew Morrison. This program is open to the public and there is no charge for attendance.