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bojacobs , 4 days ago to histodons group

Cold War Fairy Tales from the 1950s:

Just in case the monster under your bed turns out to be a thermonuclear weapon over your bed.

#ColdWar #NuclearWar @histodons

bojacobs , 11 days ago to sts group

Nuclear reactors were invented to kill people. Within a year of the first full-scale reactor coming online at #Hanford in 1944, they were the key to killing almost 100,000 people in #Nagasaki.

"Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power"

#NuclearPower #nuclear @sts @histodons

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333617931_Born_Violent_The_Origins_of_Nuclear_Power#fullTextFileContent

bojacobs , 20 days ago to sts group

American military leaders were aware of the dangers of radioactive particles long before #Hiroshima or #Trinity.

On #DDay there was a special unit under Operation Peppermint, that came ashore in Normandy with Geiger Counters in anticipation that the Nazis might "pepper" the beaches with uranium particles to sicken and slow the invasion.

#nuclear #radiation #RadiologicalWarfare @histodons @sts

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/survey-instruments/mid-to-late-1940s/victoreen-models-247-a-and-247b-ion-chambers.html

bojacobs , 24 days ago to sts group

Tomorrow afternoon Sydney time, join my hybrid lecture, either at #UNSW, or register on Zoom at the link below.

It will be a book talk about my book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022). The subtitles is: How millions harmed by #nuclear weapons & power have been made invisible during the Cold War & after

@sts @histodons #Australia #ColdWar #NuclearWeapons #hibakusha

https://nuclearbodies.com/page-5/

bojacobs , 1 month ago to sts group

New Global Hibakusha blog post:

Hybrid Lecture: How millions harmed by nuclear weapons and power have been made invisible during the Cold War and after

June 4th, in person at #UNSW in #Sydney and on Zoom

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

#nuclear #hibakusha #ColdWar

https://globalhibakusha.com/page/page-2/?permalink=hybrid-lecture-how-millions-harmed-by-nuclear-weapons-and-power-have-been-made-invisible-during-the-cold-war-and-after

bojacobs , 2 months ago to sts group

Chernobyl, 38 years ago today.

Human "bio-robots" had to make homemade lead lined suits to then spend 40 seconds to 2 minutes on the roof of reactor #3 shoveling bits of the reactor core into the hole where reactor #4 used to be. 3,500 people did this task.

#Chernobyl #NuclearPower @histodons @sts

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bojacobs , 2 months ago to sts group

"Whole Earth or No Earth: The Origin of the Whole Earth Icon in the Ashes of #Hiroshima and #nagasaki #WholeEarth #EarthDay @histodons @sts

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280775420_Whole_Earth_or_No_Earth_The_Origin_of_the_Whole_Earth_Icon_in_the_Ashes_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

bojacobs , 2 months ago to sts group

Finally, an actual good idea about use of the former Nevada Test Site (now #NNSS).

-Cover the heavily irradiated landscape with solar panels. Allow the unusable soil to be covered with renewable energy production.

#NTS #solar #climate @sts

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/nuclear-test-site-cleanup-clean-energy/

bojacobs , 2 months ago to random

Interested about actual #fallout? Check out video ⬇️

Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon testing in the atmosphere and nuclear accidents has been distributed around the planet. The presence of these particles served as radioactive tracers that facilitated our scientific understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans. It has affected the biota of the Earth as well, including human beings.

#ColdWar #nuclear #ecology

https://vimeo.com/676724714?share=copy

bojacobs , 2 months ago to random

"Ken Holtzman, who threw 2 no-hitters, won 4 WS titles, dies at 78"

I was at his second no-hitter as a kid. One of the best of the countless Cubs games I saw as a kid at Wrigley. $1 to get in, and $1 to get back and forth on the L-train.

#Cubs

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39949851/ken-holtzman-threw-2-no-hitters-won-4-ws-titles-dies-78

bojacobs , 2 months ago to histodons group

Call for Papers: Hiroshima Peace Research Journal, Vol.12

Details at the link, or contact me

#CFP #peace @sts @histodons

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/publications/journal/call-for-papers/

bojacobs , 2 months ago to histodons group

Militarily useless weapons:

"'Fracture Jaw': The Army's Plan to Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons During the Vietnam War"

#NuclearWeapons #ColdWar @histodons @sts

https://www.military.com/history/fracture-jaw-armys-plan-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons-during-vietnam-war.html

bojacobs , 2 months ago to histodons group

"America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is."

#ColdWar #NuclearWeapons @histodons

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/nuclear-war-scenario-book-siop-weapons-annie-jacobsen/

bojacobs , 3 months ago to histodons group

SMRs were always a military project. Now seeking corporate and state funding.

US military portable reactors leaked in multiple places, including #Antarctica and #Greenland. The leaking SMR in Antarctica was nicknamed "Nukey Poo"

#SMR #NuclearPower @histodons @sts

https://theconversation.com/the-us-army-tried-portable-nuclear-power-at-remote-bases-60-years-ago-it-didnt-go-well-164138

bojacobs , 3 months ago to histodons group

"Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago"

#RespectForTheAncestors
#RapaNui #archaeology @histodons

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/obsidian-blades-with-food-traces-reveal-1st-settlers-of-rapa-nui-had-regular-contact-with-south-americans-1000-years-ago

bojacobs , 3 months ago to histodons group

I was interviewed along with other scholars and activists about the film “#Oppenheimer" in today's edition of the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in Hiroshima.

My general take as reported here is that the film essentially repeats the decades old American narrative of the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki. It tells a story about Americans and not Japanese people. It is a story about great scientists, great technology and great industrial capacity. It is a story about American exceptionalism, and not about the use of weapons of mass destruction against a civilian population.

@sts
@histodons

bojacobs , 3 months ago to histodons group

"‘We got mad’: Years of pain after a childhood near radioactive Coldwater Creek in Missouri"

#STL #ColdWaterCreek #ColdWar #nuclear #NuclearWaste @histodons

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/01/15/we-got-mad-years-of-pain-after-a-childhood-near-radioactive-coldwater-creek-in-missouri/

bojacobs , 3 months ago to sts group

An early plan for long-term burial of spent nuclear fuel was to put it in the Arctic since the ice was "permanent"

"The US Left Nuclear Waste Around The World, Now Climate Change May Unearth It"

#nuclear #NuclearWaste #ColdWar @sts #RMI #Greenland #climate

https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuclear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226

bojacobs , 3 months ago to histodons group

'I was a guinea pig during secret Christmas Island nuclear tests' - BBC News

#nuclear #NuclearTest #UK #NuclearWeapon @histodons https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68415338

bojacobs , 3 months ago to sts group

Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the #Bravo Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on #Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.

Here is an article I wrote 7 years ago about how Bravo put the word #fallout into our lexicon.

"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"

#RMI #ColdWar #histodons @sts #NuclearWeapons #NuclearTest

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317011763_The_Bravo_Test_and_the_Death_and_Life_of_the_Global_Ecosystem_in_the_Early_Anthropocene

bojacobs , 4 months ago to histodons group

@histodons #nuclear

bojacobs , 4 months ago to histodons group

Gun fetishism has a long history in the US. Here we see two self-deluded American Heroes displaying the rifles they have stored in their fallout shelters in the Cold War. Presumably this is to kill their neighbors.

Image #1: Dr. Hugo M. Kellner, 60, Caledonia, NY (October 1961)

Image #2: Dr. F. Archer poses with his rifle at ready in a sparsely furnished cinderblock shelter (March 7, 1961)

#guns #ColdWar #FalloutShelters @histodons @sts

Image of a man holding a rifle in his basement fallout shelter in 1961

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

“#Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.

“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.” #ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

bojacobs , 4 months ago to histodons group

At this anniversary time of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, one of the best films ever made, I recommend this as the finest scholarship published on Strangelove as a film, as a social commentary, and as an ur text of nuclear culture: Reconstructing Strangelove by Mick Broderick. Essential reading.

#Strangelove #Kubrick #film #MediaStudies #NuclearCulture @sts @histodons

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/reconstructing-strangelove/9780231177092

bojacobs , 4 months ago to histodons group

Patient receiving IV containing radioactive particles for testing of how the body metabolizes radioactive materials. Note the lead gloves on the researcher and that he uses a metal pole to adjust the flow. #ORNL photo

I'll be giving a lecture on American Hibakusha, Americans who were exposed to radiation during the #ColdWar in #Hiroshima this Friday at 6pm. Contact me for details on the talk.

@histodons @sts #nuclear

bojacobs , 4 months ago to histodons group

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January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.

The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.

#NTS #NNSS #nuclear #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons