Bo Jacobs
@bojacobs.bsky.social
Nuclear historian, Emeritus @ Hiroshima Peace Inst, visiting @ #UNSW. I research the global #hibakuksha, #nuclear testing, production and waste. #PDX #STS
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022)
https://nuclearbodies.com
https://bojacobs.net
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022)
https://nuclearbodies.com
https://bojacobs.net
“the true cost of India’s claim to being a #nuclear power is being paid by the forgotten and devastated villages of #Jharkhand, where people live amid burning land, poisoned water, and slow death due to dumping of nuclear waste.”
#NuclearPower #India
kmsnews.org/kms/2025/10/...
#NuclearPower #India
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November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“the true cost of India’s claim to being a #nuclear power is being paid by the forgotten and devastated villages of #Jharkhand, where people live amid burning land, poisoned water, and slow death due to dumping of nuclear waste.”
#NuclearPower #India
kmsnews.org/kms/2025/10/...
#NuclearPower #India
kmsnews.org/kms/2025/10/...
Nuclear testing you say?
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
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"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Nuclear testing you say?
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
"Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism
in #Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold
War”
#NuclearTesting #ColdWar #NukeSky
ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-conte...
Bannon: “There is a plan" for a fourth button down shirt.
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bannon: “There is a plan" for a fourth button down shirt.
Here in #Tahiti, they have moved the sacred memorial for those harmed by French #nuclear testing to a new place more central to the route tourists walk by the pier, they have removed references to other nuclear test sites. As I watched, more people stopped to look, but the information is simplified.
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Here in #Tahiti, they have moved the sacred memorial for those harmed by French #nuclear testing to a new place more central to the route tourists walk by the pier, they have removed references to other nuclear test sites. As I watched, more people stopped to look, but the information is simplified.
At the University of French Polynesia for a conference on the legacies of French #nuclear testing to talk about radioactive fallout. The view from the venue.
October 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
At the University of French Polynesia for a conference on the legacies of French #nuclear testing to talk about radioactive fallout. The view from the venue.
I, for one, welcome our new Qatari Overlords
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I, for one, welcome our new Qatari Overlords
I will be part of the keynote dialogue at the Archives as Witnesses conference at the #Wilmington #Peace Resource Center in #Ohio this weekend, with Lisa Yoneyama and Norma Fields.
Details at the link:
www.pageturnpro.com/Wilmington-C...
Details at the link:
www.pageturnpro.com/Wilmington-C...
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I will be part of the keynote dialogue at the Archives as Witnesses conference at the #Wilmington #Peace Resource Center in #Ohio this weekend, with Lisa Yoneyama and Norma Fields.
Details at the link:
www.pageturnpro.com/Wilmington-C...
Details at the link:
www.pageturnpro.com/Wilmington-C...
RIP my research partner and closest friend for the last 20 years Mick Broderick.
Mick was a brilliant researcher, a deeply compassionate advocate, and maybe the funniest person I ever met.
Here we are enjoying a nuclear explosion at the beach. Good times.
Mick was a brilliant researcher, a deeply compassionate advocate, and maybe the funniest person I ever met.
Here we are enjoying a nuclear explosion at the beach. Good times.
August 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
RIP my research partner and closest friend for the last 20 years Mick Broderick.
Mick was a brilliant researcher, a deeply compassionate advocate, and maybe the funniest person I ever met.
Here we are enjoying a nuclear explosion at the beach. Good times.
Mick was a brilliant researcher, a deeply compassionate advocate, and maybe the funniest person I ever met.
Here we are enjoying a nuclear explosion at the beach. Good times.
“Attacking Children with Nuclear Weapons: The Centrality of Children in American Understandings of the Bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki”
#NukeSky #EnvHum #HistSTM
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#NukeSky #EnvHum #HistSTM
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
August 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Attacking Children with Nuclear Weapons: The Centrality of Children in American Understandings of the Bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki”
#NukeSky #EnvHum #HistSTM
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#NukeSky #EnvHum #HistSTM
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
“Reconstructing the Perpetrator's Soul
by Reconstructing the Victim's Body:
The Portrayal of the 'Hiroshima Maidens'
by the Mainstream Media in the United States”
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/jaco...
by Reconstructing the Victim's Body:
The Portrayal of the 'Hiroshima Maidens'
by the Mainstream Media in the United States”
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/jaco...
August 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Reconstructing the Perpetrator's Soul
by Reconstructing the Victim's Body:
The Portrayal of the 'Hiroshima Maidens'
by the Mainstream Media in the United States”
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/jaco...
by Reconstructing the Victim's Body:
The Portrayal of the 'Hiroshima Maidens'
by the Mainstream Media in the United States”
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
intersections.anu.edu.au/issue24/jaco...
"Hi-Roshimon: What We See When We Look at Hiroshima"
#Hiroshima #NukeSky #EnvHist #nuclear
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#Hiroshima #NukeSky #EnvHist #nuclear
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
July 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Hi-Roshimon: What We See When We Look at Hiroshima"
#Hiroshima #NukeSky #EnvHist #nuclear
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#Hiroshima #NukeSky #EnvHist #nuclear
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Here is a “stress relief” toy made in the USA in the late 1940s. The idea is to shake this box until you get the two marbles, with tails like mushroom clouds, into the holes where #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki are on the map.
#NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
#NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
July 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Here is a “stress relief” toy made in the USA in the late 1940s. The idea is to shake this box until you get the two marbles, with tails like mushroom clouds, into the holes where #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki are on the map.
#NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
#NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHist
The Guardian:
“Western guests including Elon Musk’s father to speak at pro-Putin oligarch’s Moscow forum:
British politician George Galloway and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also among speakers”
“Western guests including Elon Musk’s father to speak at pro-Putin oligarch’s Moscow forum:
British politician George Galloway and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also among speakers”
June 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Guardian:
“Western guests including Elon Musk’s father to speak at pro-Putin oligarch’s Moscow forum:
British politician George Galloway and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also among speakers”
“Western guests including Elon Musk’s father to speak at pro-Putin oligarch’s Moscow forum:
British politician George Galloway and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also among speakers”
Turns out the 50,000 year old Neanderthal who’s fingerprint we found has been tied to several recent local robberies
May 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Turns out the 50,000 year old Neanderthal who’s fingerprint we found has been tied to several recent local robberies
Right wing nationalist buses taking advantage of all the people enjoying the hanami in the #Hiroshima Peace Park this morning
March 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Right wing nationalist buses taking advantage of all the people enjoying the hanami in the #Hiroshima Peace Park this morning
The Japanese translation of my book shows up one week before departing Japan.
March 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Japanese translation of my book shows up one week before departing Japan.
The cover is based on this photo I took in the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 2019
March 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The cover is based on this photo I took in the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 2019
The cover of the NUP Japanese translation:
March 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The cover of the NUP Japanese translation:
Every time you use AI to generate an example of how stupid AI is
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Every time you use AI to generate an example of how stupid AI is