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The Limited Nuclear War Hidden Behind the Long Peace

by Bo

2022-06-07T05:43:58+00:00

My commentary, "The Limited Nuclear War Hidden Behind the Long Peace," is up and published on the website of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network. I was invited to write a short concise piece outlining some of the arguments in my book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha. The piece can be found

Short Videos on Themes from the Book Nuclear Bodies

by Bo

2022-02-18T04:21:27+00:00

I have been producing short, sharable videos on the themes of my upcoming book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha, which will be released next month by Yale University Press. The video on nuclear waste messaging below is one of those. If you want to see others, you can find them all here. More about the book, and links to booksellers can be found

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Video - Out of the Ground, Into the Ground: Nuclear Heritage

by Bo

2021-12-10T07:16:08+00:00

I had the joy of participating in a deep exploration of issues of nuclear heritage with the artist Grit Ruhland. The discussion was wide ranging focusing on the legacy of uranium mining and nuclear production. Grit's work explores nuclear heritage at uranium mining sites and communities in Germany, and modes of knowledge production around nuclear culture and technology. She does very powerful work in sculpture, video and sound installation. The event was the opening event of the Redraw Tragedy

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How Internal Exposures to Radiation Make People Invisible: Video

by Bo

2021-03-12T06:45:07+00:00

I was honored to be invited to give a lecture in the "Night with the Experts" series of the Nuclear Education Information Services (NEIS) group based in Chicago (my hometown). The title of my talk is, "How Internal Exposures to Radiation Make People Invisible." There are several parts to the lecture:-The effects of nuclear weapons-How internal and external exposures to radiation are experienced differently and affect people differently-External exposures affect our whole bodies-Internal

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Video - Managing Nuclear Narratives: The Journey from Hiroshima to Fukushima

by Bo

2020-08-21T08:41:46+00:00

Video is now available for the webinar that I joined with Norma Field and Yuki Miyamoto, moderated by Kyle Cleveland, earlier this month. Please watch and let me know what you

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Nuclear Reality 75 years after Hiroshima-Nagasaki | Bo Jacobs #ssl72

by Bo

2020-08-05T00:42:15+00:00

I had a great chat with Joy Walsh on Tuesday August 4 here in Hiroshima on her Inbound Ambassador livestream series. Joy has a series of talks on sustainability issues, and especially as they relate to Japan. She has a very insightful conversation with a wide range of people every weekday at 9 am Japan time. I love talking to Joy, and this conversation still felt special. We covered a broad range of topics from the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the various

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Bo Jacobs Message from Hiroshima, August 6, 2020

by Bo

2020-07-25T22:49:53+00:00

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

by Bo

2020-07-25T02:51:31+00:00

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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My interview for the Atomic Heritage Foundation

by Bo

2019-04-30T07:13:37+00:00

Cindy Kelly, the founder of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, visited to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and other cities in Japan earlier this year. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Cindy and having a long chat at Kissui, the kaiseki restaurant in the Sunroute Hotel in Hiroshima, overlooking the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park. Here is the interview:The interview is up on the AHF webpage and includes a transcript. You can find it here. Here I am with Cindy across from the Peace

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The Birth of Nuclear Power in the Manhattan Project: CP-1 and Hanford

by Bo

2019-02-11T07:23:55+00:00

Nuclear power plants were developed as part of a large project working to kill human beings. They were born violent. Whatever one thinks of nuclear power, their origins were not beneficent. This talk examines that history.Lecture delivered at the Hiroshima Peace Institute on 11 January 2019, introducing framing mechanisms for my upcoming journal article.Note: misstatement that PU-239 comes from U-235 rather than

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