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Global Hibakusha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Robert Jacobs
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Abstract

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My book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha has just been released by Yale University Press. The book is based on more than 10 years of research on the Global Hibakusha Project with my research collaborator Mick Broderick. This article provides a short overview of the book; you can learn more and watch some lectures at the book's website: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha.

Keywords

global hibakushaatomic bombHiroshimaNagasakiCold Warradioactivityblack rain
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , April 2022 , e1
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Notes

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2 M. Susan Lindee, Suffering Made Real: American Science and Survivors at Hiroshima (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994): 4.

3 Roger A. Meade and Linda S. Meade, “The World, We Think She Start Over Again”: Nuclear Testing and the Marshall Islands, 1946–1958, internal distribution report no. LA-UR-18-30848 (Los Alamos, NM: LANL, 2018): 116.

4 James Rice, “Downwind of the Atomic State: US Continental Atmospheric Testing, Radioactive Fallout, and Organizational Deviance, 1951–1962,” Social Science History 39 (Winter 2015): 656.

5 “The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon,” The Final Report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board for Operation Crossroads, Enclosure “A,” JCS 1691/3 (30 June 1947): 57–89.

6 John F. Kennedy, “Letter to the Members of the Committee on Civil Defense of the Governors' Conference,” 6 October 1961 (accessed 10 March 2022).