Ronald E. Powaski (June 15, 1943 – November 2019) was an American

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and teacher. He taught

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in high schools and colleges in Ohio and wrote on the 20th century

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of the

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and

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Biography

Early life and education

Ronald Powaski graduated from Cathedral Latin High School in 1960. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history from

John Carroll University John Carroll University is a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio. It is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution accompanied by the John M. and Mary Jo Boler College of Business. John Carroll has an enrollment of 3 ...

in 1964 and 1966 and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1972 with a dissertation entitled "Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933".

Career

Powaski taught history at Euclid Senior High School in

Euclid, Ohio Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner ring suburb of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 49,692. History The City of Euclid was originally a part of Euclid Township, first m ...

. : He also taught at Cleveland State University,

, and Ashland University. March to Armageddon Cover

In 1989 he published ''March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present''. In the next two decades, he published 11 books covering the nuclear arms race, the creation of NATO, World War II, presidential statecraft, and presidential foreign policies.

Books

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Commentaries

* * Powaski, Ronald E. "Bush's Nuclear Folly." '' America'' 189, no. 3 (August 4, 2003): 7. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 30, 2010).

References

External links

Ronald E. Powaski
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