Nuclear Bodies : The Global Hibakusha Hardback
by Robert A. Jacobs
Hardback
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The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war “[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature “Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs’s guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H-bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety-six U.S. nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibakusha.
Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems. Robert A. Jacobs re-envisions the history of the Cold War as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds against populations powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies.
His comprehensive account necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 24 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/2022
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- ISBN:9780300230338
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 24 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300230338
