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Articles by Robert Jacobs

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Robert (Bo) Jacobs 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.

Global Hibakusha

Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in Fukushima

On Forgetting Fukushima

The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene

The Radiation That Makes People Invisible: A Global Hibakusha Perspective

Mick Broderick and Robert Jacobs

United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands

Radiation as Cultural Talisman: Nuclear Weapons Testing and American Popular Culture in the Early Cold War

Mick Broderick and Robert Jacobs

Nuke York, New York: Nuclear Holocaust in the American Imagination from Hiroshima to 9/11−−９．１１

The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima on the Silver Screen: Two New Documentaries−−２

Social Fallout: Marginalization After the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown−−

Whole Earth or No Earth: The Origin of the Whole Earth Icon in the Ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki−−

24 Hours After Hiroshima: National Geographic Channel Takes Up the Bomb ２４