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Nuclear Bodies
Robert A. Jacobs
其他書名
The Global Hibakusha
出版Yale University Press, 2022-01-01
主題Technology & Engineering / Military ScienceHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralScience / RadiationSocial Science / Disease & Health IssuesHistory / General
ISBN03002303389780300230338
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fZldEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.