Martin J. Sherwin is the Walter S. Dickenson Professor of History at Tufts University and was the founding director of Tufts' Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center.

Professor Sherwin was the founding director and executive producer of the Global Classroom project, a 'space bridge' program that employs TV satellite technology to link university students in Moscow and the Unites States for interactive discussions about the great issues of the day.

He was on the advisory board for the aborted Enola Gay Exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Professor Sherwin has been an advisor to for a number of documentary films on the history of the nuclear age, including "The Day After Trinity," a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer; "A History of Nuclear Strategy," and the 13-part PBS series, "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age." He is currently the co-executive producer of a recently initiated documentary on the life of Igor Kurchatov, the founder and director of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.