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bojacobs

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Nuclear historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of fallout radionuclides; the legacy of our nuclear waste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
#histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace #STS

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"North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway as early as 24,000 years ago"

@histodons

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-north-america-people-sea-ice.html

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Quotes from the review of my book Nuclear Bodies: The Global HIbakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

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@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

Review available to read here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/25751654.2023.2286806?needAccess=true

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"The city under the snow: that one time the US Army attempted to build a nuclear lair in Greenland"

#NuclearWeapons #ColdWar #Greenland @histodons

https://www.historynet.com/project-iceworm-army-attempted-to-build-nuclear-lair-greenland/

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What America spent money on during the Cold War instead of actual security in the daily lives of its citizens ():

"Throughout the world, our strategic focus stand guard over our way of life. But, if a general war engulfed the world, all our military power could be helpless.

Unless our leaders could survive and control our forces before and during the holocaust, an aggressor could strike without fear of reprisal.

Only the belief that we could control our forces throughout the entire spectrum of a general nuclear war would deter him from striking the first blow."

1969 US Air Force film, declassified thanks to the National Security Archive.

@histodons

https://youtu.be/9lEvXowzhZ0

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They are still trying to normalize nuclear materials as miraculous:

"A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated"

@histodons

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-drank-so-much-radium-his-skull-literally-disintegrated

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"'Let us be a lesson', say Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing"

@histodons

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/

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Sounds easy:

"Bovenbouw Architectuur and ono architectuur designed a communication center for the storage of low and medium-level radioactive waste in Dessel, Belgium. To remain relevant throughout the 300-year process required to decrease the radioactivity, the building must be able to adapt to unforeseeable changes over the centuries."

@nuclearhumanities @sts

https://www.archdaily.com/1009123/tabloo-a-visitor-centre-for-a-nuclear-waste-disposal-facility-bovenbouw

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Open access:

Grateful for the complex and detailed review of my book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2023.2286806?src=

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Just like in Finland across the Baltic, Sweden determines that the very best place in the nation to put a deep geological storage site for spent nuclear fuel coincidentally happens to be an existing nuclear reactor site. How lucky can you get!

More proof that our DGR siting choices reflect the politics and economics of current governments rather than long-term safety.

@sts

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-approve-nuclear-waste-storage-site/

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Too soon?

"Clean-up of radioactive A-bomb remnants begins at former Staten Island uranium storage site"

@histodons

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/staten-island-radioactive-remnants-uranium-atomic-bomb-wwii

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After reading this, search for the Navajo Birth Cohort to learn how uranium mining continues to harm people born decades after mining stopped:

"'We didn't know we were poisoning ourselves': the deadly legacy of the US uranium boom.

The Diné helped dig the raw materials to build the US’s nuclear arsenal, but were never told of the danger"

@histodons @sts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/navajo-dine-uraminum-mining-poison

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@histodons @sts

Navajo Birth Cohort Study

https://hsc.unm.edu/pharmacy/research/areas/nbcs-echo.html

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If you want to learn more about Mayak (and Hanford), read Plutopia by Kate Brown.

"Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades"

@histodons

https://bigthink.com/the-past/mayak-secret-nuclear-plant-poisoned-russians-decades/

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Disaster Control

NYT video about the Palomares nuclear accident over Spain in 1966.

A US h-bomber was refueling in mid-air over Southern Spain. Both exploded and four h-bombs fell onto a small Spanish beach town (2 into the Mediterranean). This film examines health consequences to the clean up crew.

@histodons @nuclearhumanities

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"The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more specific calculation methods to show the connection between radiation dose and certain types of cancer."

@sts

https://scienmag.com/some-increase-in-cancer-after-1986-chernobyl-disaster/

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Fantastic new film. It does far more than what the headline says, it is a thoughtful inquiry, especially into global warming, and highlights many voices not traditionally included.

"New film underscores Doomsday Clock’s importance and Bulletin history"

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://thebulletin.org/2023/11/new-film-underscores-doomsday-clocks-importance-and-bulletin-history/

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"Documentary highlights plight of U.S. atomic bomb test victims"

#Trinity #MED #nuclear #NM #NuclearWeapons @histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/09/nucleur-atomic-bomb-trinity-test-new-mexico-downwinders

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The power of art to communicate complex information easily.

You can see charts of the total number of nuclear weapon tests (2,000+), or of the locations of those tests, or the years. However, this video communicates that history in a visceral, embodied way.

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://youtu.be/cjAqR1zICA0?feature=shared

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Since the effects of nuclear detonations cannot be contained at "test sites," specifically the immense clouds of radioactive fallout, when is a "test” actually an "attack" on those living downwind?

Every nuclear weapon state strategized the use of fallout as a primary method to attack communities in enemy territory. Is the act of inflicting these fallout clouds on downwind communities violence? Or research?

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://vimeo.com/668545237?share=copy

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Masha Gessen interviewing Robert Jay Lifton:

How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe"

@histodons

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-to-maintain-hope-in-an-age-of-catastrophe

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Veterans Day:

"In Operation Desert Rock, the military conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1957. In total, more nearly 400,000 American soldiers and civilians would be classified as 'atomic veterans.'"

#VeteransDay #NTS #NuclearTest #ColdWar @histodons

https://youtu.be/4kG9kD8bPnA?feature=shared

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Your climate mitigation is getting in the way of my nuclear apocalypse plans!

"Air Force asks Congress to shield nuclear launch sites from wind power"

#nuclear #climate #NuclearWeapons @sts

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2023/11/07/air-force-asks-congress-to-shield-nuclear-launch-sites-from-wind-power/

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There are two forms of nuclear colonialism. The extraction of natural resources from traditional indigenous and colonized lands. And the colonialism of treating a place as empty, as "no place" where there is "no one" and there are no consequences for nuclear testing. Nuclear weapon states have always very intentionally "selected the irradiated." Read, Nuclear Bodies: The Global .

@histodons @sts @nuclearhumanities

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/669675976

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"Pacific Islands Forum chair says region must revisit its anti-nuclear treaty"

@histodons

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/07/pacific-islands-forum-chair-says-region-must-revisit-its-anti-nuclear-treaty?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

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Very similar to the human radiation experiments conducted by the US during the #coldwar

"Punjabi women were given chapatis laced with radioactive isotopes in the 1960s, it's been claimed"

#Punjab #India #nuclear @histodons

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/calls-investigate-horrifying-claims-south-27593681

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Fallout cloud from a nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site during the Upshot-Knothole series (1953).

This is about an hour after the test, and the cloud is in the process of spreading into Southern Utah where it will dump a significant portion of its radioactive fallout on houses, farms and ranches.

#nuclear #NuclearWeapons #NTS #ColdWar #Utah #NV @histodons

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Swimmers and sunbathers at Old Frontier Village watch a distant mushroom cloud from the Nevada Test Site (1957). This would be about 100 miles away.

@histodons

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School chairs in Hiroshima show the flash burns from the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945

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Scientists calculate that four specific tests (out of almost 500) were responsible for the majority of the radioactive fallout deposited downwind of the Polygon nuclear test site in Kazakhstan (the primary test site of the former USSR).

@histodons

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In "safe" Fukushima waste water news:

"Fukushima nuclear plant workers sent to hospital after being splashed with tainted water"

#Fukushima #nuclear #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower @sts

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/27/fukushima-nuclear-plant-workers-hospitalised-after-being-splashed-with-tainted-water?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

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"Study from Fukushima shows even low doses of radiation may contribute to diabetes"

#Fukushima #radiation #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste @sts #diabetes #LNT

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-fukushima-doses-contribute-diabetes.html

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"Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone"

"How we project our own fantasies onto animals in #Chernobyl depends on if they are what animals we have in mind."

#NonHuman #radiation #NuclearPower #nuclear #environment @sts

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad-animals-return-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-0

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This is very bad news for radioactive waste management at

"Hanford’s pre-treated waste might not meet Vit Plant criteria"

Much of the worst radioactive waste at Hanford is the "liquid" waste in the Tank Farms. The plan was to vitrify them (enclose them in glass). Now, looks like the Vit Plant may not be up to the task. Billions more wasted after the first Vit Plant was scuttled for safety concerns.

All of the tanks in the Tank Farm are leaking. Workers are hospitalized annually for inhaling toxic fumes working at the site. They may remain with no viable plan to process the waste into a form that is manageable.

@sts @histodons

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/hanfords-pre-treated-waste-might-not-meet-vit-plant-criteria/

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"Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone"

My new #OA article is available.

When the mammals seen in the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are non-human, it is supposed to be a sign that nature is healing, the #CEZ is a wildlife sanctuary! But when they are Russian troops, they are all gonna die!! 4 legs good, 2 legs bad.

#nuclear #radiation #environment @sts @nuclearhumanities

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad-animals-return-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-0

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"New Dating of Cave Art Reveals History of Puerto Rican People"

@histodons

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2023/23-40.aspx

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Nuclear power was invented in the Manhattan Project before nuclear weapons. It was invented to manufacture plutonium to kill thousands of people.

My article on this origin story

"Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power"

@histodons @sts

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

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An American toy from 1946:

"The Atomic Bomb Dexterity Game"

You try to get two glass beads (to the left in this photo), each with a tail so that when you get them in the holes for Hiroshima & , the back end stands up like a mushroom cloud.

Mass murder triumphalism...for kids!

Photo of original item in my office here in .

@histodons @nuclearhumanities @sts @hugo

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The whole ecosystem is "marked" by radioactive particles globally distributed by nuclear weapon testing:

"Anthropogenic uranium signatures in turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles from nuclear sites"

There are countless species, flora and fauna, with studies tracking this. Interested in more on this, read my book Nuclear Bodies

@histodons

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad241/7244772

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@Legit_Spaghetti @histodons
Absolutely. One key early source of this pre-contamination metal was World War One German naval vessels that had been scuttled off the coast of Scotland in the 1920s.

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How does Bill Gates get the mini-nukes he has been clamoring for?

AI!

"Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions"

Your tax dollars coming his way soon!

@sts

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring

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Declaring earthquake faults inactive so you can continue to monetize your unsafe nuclear power plants. What could go wrong?

"Japan regulator bypasses experts in declaring faults under nuclear plant not active"

@sts

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230316/p2a/00m/0na/016000c

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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

"Congressional commission calls for more nuclear arsenal expansion"

Yeah, these weapons that are militarily useless? I'll have trillions of dollars more please.

@sts

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2023/10/12/congressional-commission-calls-for-more-nuclear-arsenal-expansion/

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More and more news coming out about the many sunken nuclear submarines:

"Sunken Nuclear Submarine May Be Leaking Radiation Into The Ocean"

Also, the leaking radiation is not coming from nuclear weapons, which have been removed, but from the onboard nuclear reactor.

@sts

https://www.iflscience.com/sunken-nuclear-submarine-may-be-leaking-radiation-into-the-ocean-71037

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Open access

“Managing The Days: Personal Responsibility and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster”

My new article, co-authored with Mick Broderick, analyzing the recent Netflix series on Fukushima, The Days.

@sts @nuclearhumanities

https://apjjf.org/2023/10/Broderick-Jacobs.html

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This Russian nuclear test site is located in the European Arctic. The largest h-bomb ever, the Tsar Bomba, was detonated here in 1961.

@sts

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-novaya-zemlya-nuclear-tests/32608303.html

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So fascinated by Göbekli Tepe

"The first life-sized painted wild boar statue made of limestone has been recently unearthed during the excavations carried out by the Culture and Tourism Ministry in in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, which is considered the "zero point of history" with its 12,000 years of history."

@histodons

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-discoveries-never-end-says-head-of-excavations-186715

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Yum!

"Scientists unlock the secrets of a sixth basic flavor"

@sts
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-secrets-sixth-basic-flavor.html

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