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Bo Jacobs Message from Hiroshima, August 6, 2020

I am honored to be a participant in the Hiroshima & Nagasaki 75 online event streaming 30 hours of content by a broad diversity of people and groups who have been affected by or are commenting on the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and also the 2,000 nuclear weapon tests, widespread contamination from nuclear production and nuclear accidents. Please join the event live, or learn about events near where you live. You can learn all about this at the Hiroshima/Nagasaki75 website. I was

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How Culture Wrestled with the Atomic Age

Why do nuclear icons show up constantly on consumer goods and in popular culture? What does this tell us about our society? I had the pleasure of talking with Inside Science reporter Chris Gorski last month. He talked to me and my research colleague Mick Broderick, and also musicologist Reba Wissner. Image credit: Get HiroshimaYou can find the article here, and the larger series that Inside Science did about the anniversary of the Trinity Test

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Video: The Nuclear Realities of Testing, Power and Weapons (interview on Inbound Ambassador YouTube channel)

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joy Walsh, the Inbound Ambassador, on her YouTube channel in June. , the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fukushima, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and especially moves towards resuming nuclear testing. A wide ranging interview on a number of topics, conducted onsite at some legacy buildings in Hiroshima that face demolition I talked to Joy earlier, in February, about nuclear power being born violent. It was a great including discussion about

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