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Oppenheimer Opens in Japan: Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of Hiroshima Peace Institute After a delay of more than one year, the Oppenheimer film has opened in Japan. To learn what the response has been, we spoke with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima...
Today my guest is Robert (Bo) Jacobs. Robert is a historian of Science and Technology at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and Graduate School of Peace Studies at Hiroshima City University. He has published widely on the interface of nuclear technologies with human beings and communities. His book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha was published by Yale University Press in 2022. Nuclear weapons have once again come into the spotlight with the ongoing war in Ukraine, and I thought it would be useful to get a wide picture of the history and future of these weapons, so I hope you are sitting comfortably and happy to stay with us. By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that the entire contents and design of this podcast are the property of Ken Sweeney, or used by Ken Sweeney with permission, and are protected under Irish and international copyright and trademark laws. Except as otherwise provided herein, users of this podcast may save and use information contained in the podcast only for personal or other non-commercial, educational purposes. No other use, including, without limitation, reproduction, retransmission or editing, of this podcast may be made without the prior written permission of Ken Sweeney.
Today I welcome nuclear historian Robert Jacobs, author of Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha. Robert Jacobs is a Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima City University. Jacobs is the author of The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (2010), (also available in a Japanese translation published by Gaifusha in 2013), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), and numerous other books and journal articles on nuclear history. Beginning in 2010, Jacobs co-founded the Global Hibakusha Project. The project conducts field research at radiation affected sites and in radiation affected communities around the world. His book based on this research, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha will be published by Yale University Press in 2022.
Robert (Bo) Jacobs is a Historian of Nuclear Technologies and Radiation Technopolitics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima City University. On August 6th, 2021 he shares some of his work insights from in front of Hiroshima Peace Park's A-bomb dome. Other interviews with Bo Jacobs: August 4, 2020: Nuclear Histories + Current Realities Now 75th Memorial of Hiroshima + Nagasaki Nuclear Attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrLCeQ4tvI&t=0s (https://youtu.be/EPrLCeQ4tvI) Talking about Nuclear Power "Born Violent": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4ehrC002I&t=0s (https://youtu.be/Dr4ehrC002I) Nuclear Realities of testing, power, weapons and storage- past, present, and future" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBhjn9NGS4&t=0s (https://youtu.be/VmBhjn9NGS4) Find out more about Professor Robert (Bo) Jacobs on his website: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3BudnNXMEN3WUdKUEkxTmFZQzg3MThqbXozd3xBQ3Jtc0tudjRUVWpTNFpsUmNLX25nNXdSUG5oVGdTRXQyZmtzbUZ6eXBBcDRyUzZMVFcyM2Q0aDZmUU9lMVM4bUNtZnNvbEpDX2R4eTVmNmcwVGt4V2tLWTFWZnJ3aU9jbGxxVkFVWjBuaHNMVFJYNnhqRHFjZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fbojacobs.net%2F (https://bojacobs.net/) Blog: Global Hibakusha (Nuclear Blast + Nuclear Radiation Survivors) https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa1JvX3pEdnBISk15YjlWUnBVUHFUOTBJYkk3QXxBQ3Jtc0tuYUdpV3A3d0M2MTJtYXpvN1hmZjlvWVVtZ29qbXY1SVFVUURWeHoyNnFaRElUNkdPT19tcWt1YU9JQmpKTXhzR2dHUWpCTXV0X1E2X2NfSDhEN29CcXRnYndQS2dzazNpU0g4b1VrdHZHX2NjTVZjbw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalhibakusha.com%2F (https://globalhibakusha.com/) Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEtmUlprLXkzMmJTQnBKLUZ6Z2w0bGc5czNEQXxBQ3Jtc0ttMWRUbHVvWEx4V2ctUjNpckF3aDR4QWpidWpRNzhwMk1xUVdsTG5ia0JxZWpnSzJMRzI0QVlxWmdwcDI5WngtLXBuWVRiZUgyMFNHSW9SdkpYNVAwUFZvbFhiTVladWhWQUNXODRraEp3cjIzQlhtVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbojacobs (https://twitter.com/bojacobs) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nuclearhistory (#nuclearhistory) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bojacobs (#bojacobs) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/globalhibakusha (#globalhibakusha) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nucleartesting (#nucleartesting) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nuclearpower (#nuclearpower) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nuclearweapons (#nuclearweapons) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nuclearscholar (#nuclearscholar) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nuclearhistorian (#nuclearhistorian) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/profbojacobs (#profbojacobs) Support this podcast
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.” He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the long-discredited “Duck and Cover” method for “surviving” a nuclear attack and analyzes the psychology behind this misleading bit of pro-nuclear propaganda. BREAKING: Fallout in Hawaii of a political nature in the ongoing aftermath of the January 13 false incoming missile alert.
Featured Image: Screen shot from the 1984 ABC-TV movie “The Day After” –Impact of atomic bomb detonation and resulting fireball on the human body.You can’t “duck and cover” from that. LINK to full film below. This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org...
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.” He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the long-discredited “Duck and Cover” method for “surviving” a nuclear attack and analyzes the psychology behind this misleading bit of pro-nuclear propaganda. BREAKING: Fallout in Hawaii of a political nature in the ongoing aftermath of the January 13 false incoming missile alert.
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.” He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the long-discredited “Duck and Cover” method for “surviving” a nuclear attack and analyzes the psychology behind this misleading bit of pro-nuclear propaganda. BREAKING: Fallout in Hawaii of a political nature in the ongoing aftermath of the January 13 false incoming missile alert.
TechnoPolitics explained, an update on nuclear hot spots in Japan, the U.S. and around the world - Robert A. Jacobs, Ph.D. Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Graduate Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University The Asia-Pacific Journal Volume 13, Issue 29, No. 1 (July 20, 2015) Asian Journal of Peace-building Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2013): 157-177 The Culture and Conflict Review 6:2 (Summer 2012) Counterpunch (29 April 2016) DiaNuke (9 March 2016) The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 14, Issue 5, No. 1 (1 March 2016) Asia-Pacific Journal 12:13 (August 4, 2014)
Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He fills us in on how people in Japan are REALLY responding to threats of a possible missile strike on their country by North Korea. (SPOILER ALERT: Not very.)
Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump’s misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He fills us in on how people in Japan are REALLY responding to threats of a possible missile strike on their country by North Korea. (SPOILER ALERT: Not very.)
Bruce Gagnon is the secretary/coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He provides the history of US/NK relations, a context for understanding what the countries are threatening, Donald Trump's misplaced bellicosity, and the likelihood that Kim Jong Un will drop a nuke on Guam (SPOILER ALERT: Not very likely.) Bo Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He fills us in on how people in Japan are REALLY responding to threats of a possible missile strike on their country by North Korea. (SPOILER ALERT: Not very.)
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), along with the author of numerous scientific papers. Since 2010 he has been a co-researcher for the Global Hibakusha Project. Numnutz of the Week: Fukushima Prefecture plans to burn “lightly irradiated” wood to shrink the volume of waste by 99.5% – BUT NOT THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVITY! Thus they’ll be concentrating the contamination and releasing it as smoke, ash and soot. But hey, it LOOKS like it’s less! And they have the GALL to call what they’ll be creating “green power!” Numnutz fer shure!
This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole...
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), along with the author of numerous scientific papers. Since 2010 he has been a co-researcher for the Global Hibakusha Project. Numnutz of the Week: Fukushima Prefecture plans to burn “lightly irradiated” wood to shrink the volume of waste by 99.5% – BUT NOT THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVITY! Thus they’ll be concentrating the contamination and releasing it as smoke, ash and soot. But hey, it LOOKS like it’s less! And they have the GALL to call what they’ll be creating “green power!” Numnutz fer shure!
Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, where he is a historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He is the author of The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age, (also available in a Japanese translation), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), along with the author of numerous scientific papers. Since 2010 he has been a co-researcher for the Global Hibakusha Project. Numnutz of the Week: Fukushima Prefecture plans to burn “lightly irradiated” wood to shrink the volume of waste by 99.5% – BUT NOT THE AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVITY! Thus they'll be concentrating the contamination and releasing it as smoke, ash and soot. But hey, it LOOKS like it's less! And they have the GALL to call what they'll be creating “green power!” Numnutz fer shure!
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian popu^A-lations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian popu^A-lations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian popu^A-lations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian popu^A-lations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification.
A talk by Yuki Tanaka, Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Dr. Tanaka examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian populations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples' Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification. The Center for East Asian Studies 2009 Najita Distinguished Lecture.
A talk by Yuki Tanaka, Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Dr. Tanaka examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making and execution of the order to drop the bombs. Criminality is examined in accordance with international law effective at the time that the bombs were dropped and in the light of the Charter of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The lecture also examines the history and present situation of indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilian populations. It examines how the use of this tactic started, what kind of military logic was used to justify it, and why it is still being widely sanctioned despite the fact that large numbers of civilians are repeatedly victimized in various war-torn regions of the world. It further explores how we should utilize the result of the International Peoples' Tribunal of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to increase understanding of the fact that killing civilians is a crime against humanity, regardless of the asserted military justification. The Center for East Asian Studies 2009 Najita Distinguished Lecture.