Nuclear Bodies - The Global Hibakusha

Jacobs' comprehensive account of the history and consequences of radiation exposures from nuclear testing, production and accidents?early mortality, disease, uncertainty and anxiety, displacement, contamination of food sources and ecosystems?necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, battlefields and radiological legacies of the Cold War.

About the author

Robert A. Jacobs is a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University. He is the co-founder of the Global Hibakusha Project, conducting field research on radiation-affected communities in more than twenty countries.

Summary

The Cold War reconsidered as seventy-five years of slow nuclear warfare

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Jacobs, Robert A. Jacobs, Jacobs Robert A.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2022
• EAN: 9780300230338
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23033-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, Illness & addiction: social aspects, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry & radiation, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry and radiation