Today I welcome nuclear historian Robert Jacobs, author of Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha.
Robert Jacobs is a Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of Peace Studies of Hiroshima City University. Jacobs is the author of The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (2010), (also available in a Japanese translation published by Gaifusha in 2013), and the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), and numerous other books and journal articles on nuclear history. Beginning in 2010, Jacobs co-founded the Global Hibakusha Project. The project conducts field research at radiation affected sites and in radiation affected communities around the world. His book based on this research, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha will be published by Yale University Press in 2022.
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