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bojacobs

@bojacobs@hcommons.social

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.
#histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace #STS

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seachanger, to random
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yesterday the US & Europe contributed aircraft and firepower (Navy and Air Force) to “help” shoot down Iranian missiles and drones — you know in addition to the massive “iron dome” defense system that we pay for.

imagine if we cared for gazans or Ukrainians like we care about Israel! Imagine if we cared about poor Americans like we care about israel! I cannot with this country

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf-fighters-shoot-down-iranian-drones-in-defense-of-israel/

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/04/14/us-forces-help-israel-repel-iranian-drone-missile-attack/

bojacobs,
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@seachanger @inquiline in my world that is a critical conversation. I have long said that the reason we have nuclear weapons is because of their use in transferring massive amounts of public money to private hands. They are militarily useless weapons.

bojacobs, to random
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The “move fast and break things" mob has been zeroing in on nuclear. What could go wrong?

bojacobs, to Germany
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Had long known about the radioactive boar in Germany resultant from Chernobyl contamination, but a team has shown that a significant amount of the radionuclides they are eating comes from Cold War nuclear weapon testing.

@sts

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/wild-boars-germany-nuclear-weapons-tests

bojacobs, to ai
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Why so many super excited articles about nuclear power in the press everywhere??

Techbros<>Nukebros

"AI Is Giving Nuclear Power a Big Lift. 4 Stocks Riding the Trend."

Nuclear is not coming to save the world, it is coming to feed Silicon Valley unicorns

#NuclearPower #AI #climate

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-nuclear-power-stocks-8852a830

bojacobs, to random
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Respect

"Kristi Noem, South Dakota governor, banned from second reservation in state.

At a Cheyenne River Sioux meeting, members voted 12-0 to keep the Republican out over her claims of of tribe-drug cartel nexus"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/kristi-noem-south-dakota-governor-banned-reservation

bojacobs, to australia
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Coming up in May and June, my book tour in Australia. Talks likely in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Details soon, also check my book webpage:

https://nuclearbodies.com

bojacobs, to Stoicism
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Call for Papers: Hiroshima Peace Research Journal, Vol.12

Details at the link, or contact me

@sts @histodons

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/publications/journal/call-for-papers/

CindyWeinstein, to random
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April is . I love many poems but "Kaddish" by is one of my very favorites. So many incredible lines, like this one: "There, rest. No more suffering for you. I know where you’ve gone, it’s good."

What do you love?

bojacobs,
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@CindyWeinstein I first met Ginsberg in 1978 when he was doing a book signing at Boulder Books. I was 18 and I had a copy of Kaddish, I told him it was the first book of his that I would read and he said, “it’s kind of heavy for a first one to read." Have never stopped loving it, and the rest of the poems in the book.

bojacobs, to random
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Fascinating look at the various sciences focused on what happens in the brain at death. A field seemingly near to important breakthroughs that reflect on the nature of consciousness. I fall on the side of seeing consciousness a a capacity of the brain rather than as something that “inhabits" as part of its independent journey.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience

NickEast, to scifi
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I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing


bojacobs,
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@NickEast @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing Well, there was also the Bible and similar holy texts written long before Shelly.

bojacobs, to Florida
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"Deerfield Beach asphalt plant worries neighbors, raises concerns about recycling radioactive waste"

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2024/03/deerfield-asphalt-plant-raises-concerns-recylcing-radioactive-waste/

bojacobs, to random
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The Price-Anderson Act caps the liability for nuclear power plant operators at $500 million in the event of an accident. Nuclear accidents cost billions. That puts the US taxpayer on the hook for a disaster, and also creates disincentives to pay for safety rigor. This subsidy is one more reason the true cost of nuclear is on the public while the profits are privatized. Every other industry must fund its liability.

"Nuclear industry critics take aim at liability cap extension"

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4560642-nuclear-industry-liability-cap-extension-critics/

inquiline, to random
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Admit something about yourself likely to get you tarred and feathered and chased off Mastodon

Me: never seen Star Trek and fine with that

bojacobs,
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@inquiline Only game console I have ever played is Nintendo 1.

bojacobs, to random
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45 years ago today, Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, PA suffered a partial meltdown.

12 days earlier the movie “The China Syndrome" had opened nationwide in the US. Many people, including reporters, flocked to the movie to wrap their heads around a nuclear meltdown.

Now, the movie is forgotten, but the cesium-137 released by the nuclear accident (along with other radionuclides) remains embedded in the ecosystem.

bojacobs, to histodons
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Militarily useless weapons:

"'Fracture Jaw': The Army's Plan to Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons During the Vietnam War"

@histodons @sts

https://www.military.com/history/fracture-jaw-armys-plan-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons-during-vietnam-war.html

bojacobs, to histodons
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"America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is."

@histodons

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/nuclear-war-scenario-book-siop-weapons-annie-jacobsen/

bojacobs, to Cosmology
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Getting complicated out there...

"1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it"

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/1st-detection-of-hiccupping-black-hole-leads-to-surprising-discovery-of-2nd-black-hole-orbiting-around-it

sharan, (edited ) to random
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Well now.

bojacobs,
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@sharan @jordinn you don't often hear of tourism spoken of as a good thing

bojacobs, to worldwithoutus
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SMRs were always a military project. Now seeking corporate and state funding.

US military portable reactors leaked in multiple places, including and . The leaking SMR in Antarctica was nicknamed "Nukey Poo"

@histodons @sts

https://theconversation.com/the-us-army-tried-portable-nuclear-power-at-remote-bases-60-years-ago-it-didnt-go-well-164138

bojacobs, to Archaeology
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"Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago"


@histodons

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/obsidian-blades-with-food-traces-reveal-1st-settlers-of-rapa-nui-had-regular-contact-with-south-americans-1000-years-ago

bojacobs, to random
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"Idaho: white supremacist prisoner on the run after brazen hospital ambush"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/idaho-white-supremacist-prisoner-hospital-trip-escape

bojacobs, to nuclear
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Clean, safe, too cheap to meter.....

"Russian Nuclear Plant Near Ukraine Border Attacked by Drones"

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-nuclear-plant-kursk-drone-attack-1881138

bojacobs, to nuclear
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Another clear and direct link between nuclear power and weapons in France:

": the French army and EDF will collaborate to produce tritium, essential for deterrent weapons"

And see how they call nuclear weapons "deterrent weapons"? Right.

@sts

https://www.dailynewsen.com/science/nuclear-the-french-army-and-edf-will-collaborate-to-produce-tritium-h130401.html

bojacobs, to nuclear
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I was interviewed along with other scholars and activists about the film “" in today's edition of the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in Hiroshima.

My general take as reported here is that the film essentially repeats the decades old American narrative of the attacks on & . It tells a story about Americans and not Japanese people. It is a story about great scientists, great technology and great industrial capacity. It is a story about American exceptionalism, and not about the use of weapons of mass destruction against a civilian population.

1/2

@sts
@histodons

bojacobs,
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@sts @histodons

2/2

Let me follow this up with an article I co-authored with Ran Zwigenberg in 2020:

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

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

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