NH #741: We Are All Nuclear Radiation Downwinders – Prof. Robert Jacobs book The Global Hibakusha

PERSONAL NOTE:

Portrait of a playwright/podcaster in Peak Happiness with the stage of her new play,
ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE.

Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy here. I’m in Ohio at the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center (PRC) for the world premiere staged reading of my play, ATOMIC BILL AND THE PAYMENT DUE. It’s a featured presentation for the PRC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration. While here, my commitments are such that I’m unable to produce the Nuclear Hotseat that I planned to on the PRC and the play, as well as my experience seeing the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. All that will be on next week’s show. Here, an important full-length interview with Prof. Bo Jacobs on how we, all of us, are Global Hibakusha – atomic bomb radiation survivors. Thanks for understanding. – Libbe.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

This is a SPECIAL full-length interview with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs on his book, NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha.

• HIBAKUSHA is the term for those who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in recent years, it has come to be applied more widely to all who have been exposed to radiation from nuclear bomb testing and other sources of contamination from manufacturing, uranium mining, nuclear reactors, and radioactive waste. As today’s guest will explain, that means just about all of us.
  
  Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs is an American historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. He moved to Japan in 2006 after being hired by the Hiroshima Peace Institute. and is currently a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima City University. He’s the author of the 2022 book, NUCLEAR BODIES: The Global Hibakusha. Bo Jacobs retired from the Hiroshima Peace Institute and returned to the United States, where he continues to write, leacture, and teaxh on nuclear issues.
  
  I spoke with Robert “Bo” Jacobs on Friday, July 21, 2023.

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