Global hibakusha
Who are the “global hibakusha”? As many of us know, hibakusha is the Japanese word used to refer to those who survived the two nuclear attacks conducted by the United States against the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Those attacks killed between 100,000 and 200,000 human beings instantly, and wounded as many.
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グローバル・ヒバクシャ
by Robert A. Jacobs
The University of Nagoya Press (2025)
広島・長崎だけではない、惑星的な被曝の全体像へ ——。現在の科学的知見や幅広い聞き取り調査を踏まえて、核実験・原発事故・ウラン採掘の被害者をはじめ、これまで不可視化されてきた世界のヒバクシャの実態を追究。原爆の記憶や福島の経験と接続するとともに、核抑止論の前提を鋭く問い直す。
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Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
by Robert A. Jacobs
Yale University Press (2022)
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 US 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.
Folks in #Eugene
Antinuclear film screening, *Silent War: the Shadow of Atomic Bombs* this Wed.
Film is based on parts of my last book, #Nuclear bodies: the global #hibakusha that examines how Cold War nuclear powers selected their test sites, and therefore, who would be irradiated.
Screening to be followed by a roundtable discussion.
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