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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
Description: Robert Jacobâs book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale UP, 2022) reâenvisions 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. Jacobsâs book put these ânuclear bodiesâ and the legacy of our eighty years history of nuclear weapon and power use at the center of his inquiry. The contaminated bodies of the hibakusha and the contaminated grounds on which they live (or in many cases lived. As many lost their homes), Jacobs argues, are largely invisible because of the colonial and...