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Nuclear historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of fallout radionuclides; the legacy of our nuclear waste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
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"Use of Fire in Europe Pushed Back 50,000 Years"

https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2023/humans-were-making-fires-at-least-250-000.htm

bojacobs, to sts
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Poster warning about gathering radioactive mushrooms in the wild. Pic taken at the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv when I was there in 2019.

@sts @histodons

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The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled

@histodons @sts

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/

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Really good story by my friend Uzaemonnaotsuka Toukai in the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in , with an image of the US nuclear football in the Hiroshima Peace Park during the visit there yesterday by President Biden during the .

This enables the president to order the launch of weapons from anywhere, in this case, from inside the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park.

The presence of this military capability in such a place is both disrespectful to those killed by the 1945 nuclear attack, and highlights the insanity of nuclear weapon policies. It also shows how performative is the idea that the G7 Summit reflected any desire for nuclear disarmament.

@AtomicAnalyst @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

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in 1966 a US nuclear bomber blew up while refueling over Southern Spain and four h-bombs fell on the village of Palomares and into the Mediterranean nearby. All four were recovered but the two that fell on the village broke open and spread radioactive material around. Now, almost 60 years later, residents still look forward to the day when the US cleans the site up sufficiently.

"Los vecinos de Palomares: “Estamos deseando que se lleven las tierras contaminadas”

La pequeña pedanía almeriense acumula varias hectáreas afectadas por las bombas de plutonio que cayeron, sin estallar, tras el accidente nuclear del invierno de 1966"

@histodons @sts

https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2023-05-13/los-vecinos-de-palomares-estamos-deseando-que-se-lleven-las-tierras-contaminadas.html

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"Ancient Female Figurines Sheltered by Boar Tusks Discovered in Ukraine Cave"

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-05-09/ty-article/female-figurines-sheltered-by-boar-tusks-discovered-in-ukraine-cave/00000188-002e-dc7e-a3fe-22ef62e30000

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The drought in Spain highlights how global warming is crippling the nuclear industry, which is entirely dependent on abundant quantities of water to function.

Spanish reactors, all on rivers, are competing with a range of other segments of society that rely on the decreasing levels of water.

Additionally, the heated water these plants return to the river exacerbate the problem.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/spain-to-adopt-urgent-water-supply-measures-amidst-historic-drought/

bojacobs, (edited ) to histodons
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Last month I had the pleasure of having a talk and discussion with members of International Students / Youth Pugwash about my book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha on Zoom.

Here is a video of the book talk presentation part of the event.

@histodons @sts @nuclearhumanities

https://vimeo.com/825676876?share=copy

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Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price

https://www.theonion.com/clarence-thomas-promises-to-adopt-code-of-ethics-for-th-1850409408

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1/1

This article is a complete hatchet job.

"$59 Million, Gone: How Bikini Atoll Leaders Blew Through U.S. Trust Fund"

Lines like this: "Recognizing the damage its testing caused, the U.S. government established two trust funds in the 1980s to help pay for Bikinians’ health care, build housing and cover living costs."

Clearly there are problems, and many are tied to post-colonial social disruptions along with permanently irradiated homelands, but this article is an example of victim blaming.

@histodons @nuclearhumanities

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/world/asia/bikini-atoll-resettlement-fund.html

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@histodons @nuclearhumanities

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It brings to mind condescening attitudes like that on display in this 1957 newsreel about the irradiated members of the Rongelap community, just downwind of Bikini Atoll, who were made sick and lost their land after the 1954 Bravo test.

…John is a savage but a happy, amenable savage…

bojacobs, to sts
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"Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power" (2019)

The first 13 reactors built in the US only manufactured plutonium. The 14th was for electricity.

This article traces the history of the development and construction of the first prototypes & operating nuclear power plants, all as part of the Manhattan Project. Beginning with CP-1, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction in 1942, it details subsequent Manhattan Project reactors and then examines the construction & operation of the first modern nuclear power plants built at Hanford, WA. These were built for the sole purpose of manufacturing plutonium for nuclear weapons. It argues that nuclear power was born violent: it was invented as part of the manufacturing process of nuclear weaponry. It was immediately essential to killing 100,00s of people.

@histodon @nuclearhumanities @sts

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333617931_Born_Violent_The_Origins_of_Nuclear_Power

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"Analysis: Calls for South Korean nuclear arsenal unlikely to fade despite US deal"

A few things to unpack: " a sense that the South is a growing global power that should be among the nuclear-armed states."

This presumes nuclear weapons are a political status indicator rather than WMDs. You just get them when you are important enough.

Next, why can South Korea build nuclear weapons quickly? Because it has been stockpiling plutonium that it has been manufacturing by operating nuclear power plants for electricity. is in the same position.

Nuclear power & nuclear weapons are linked. Nuclear reactors were invented in the Manhattan Project for this exact purpose: to manufacture plutonium. Many countries stockpile PU in case they "need" it militarily later.

@sts

https://www.reuters.com/world/calls-south-korean-nuclear-arsenal-unlikely-fade-despite-us-deal-analysts-say-2023-04-27/

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"1,800-year-old mask likely used in farm festivals found in Osaka"

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https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14893644

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Don’t Contaminate Ukrainian Soil with Depleted Uranium Weapons!

Sign the petition to G7 leaders at the link below.

https://www.change.org/p/don-t-contaminate-ukrainian-soil-with-depleted-uranium-weapons?recruiter=59090075&recruited_by_id=10f05440-e2c4-0130-9519-3c764e049b10&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

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Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

It is not over. Chernobyl spread radioactive particles across Europe and beyond. The fire in reactor #4 burned for over a month, releasing massive amounts of radionuclides which then would fallout and embed into the .

37 years later we still find food contaminated with Chernobyl fallout every year. Often with cesium-137 which is very adept at transporting in an ecosystem once the particle has deposited from the fallout cloud.

@sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

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@kravietz @sts @histodons @Npars01

Here's a starter for you. Plenty of research findings on contaminated food, especially mushrooms, berries and wild boar all around Europe that you can easily find.

https://sciencenorway.no/chernobyl-forskningno-nature-conservation/surprisingly-high-levels-of-radioactivity-in-norwegian-reindeer-and-sheep/1408148

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Healthy boar tell us nothing. Large mammals are not what you study to discern deleterious effects, you look at insects or other species that reproduce quickly. This is why the early studies were on fruit flies, not uranium miners.

Clearly most harm from radiation after large distributions of radionuclides don't come from genetic inheritance, but from internalizing radionuclides. That is why food that contains radioactive particles is the issue, not measurable external levels, or the ability to see a healthy animal at some point. Even the RERF, where the studies you cite on dose thresholds and genetic abnormalities you discuss originated, acknowledge this.

Governments monitor levels in food. Not because they are worried about whole body dose, or genetic inheritance, but about internalized radionuclides sparking cancers, like iodine-131 does in the thyroid. Internalized particles can eventuate in disease, there is abundant epidemiological evidence of this.

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Re for my new followers.

I am a historian of nuclear science & technology at Hiroshima Peace Inst & Grad School of Peace Studies. My book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha (Yale 2022) surveys harm from production, weapon testing, & reactor accidents across the globe, & medical models that obscure harm from fallout particles.

Collecting oral histories in 20+ countries , I examine how communities, families and interior psychology suffer via exposures.

I track nuclear (selecting the irradiated) arguing the was a limited nuclear war against these populations.

I also explore our relationship to our HL nuclear waste, asserting it is how our descendants will know us. Our choices now reveal our lack of consideration of the 1000s of generations of living beings for whom this waste is already a part of their world.

Previous life: l was a chef & worked w/ food

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