Nuclear bodies : the global hibakusha
Robert A. Jacobs
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | vii, 318 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "We imagine that nuclear radiation has affected a limited group of people in a few extreme moments such as the 1945 attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a small number of nuclear power plant meltdowns such as Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011. Few people know of the millions exposed through earlier plant catastrophes or through fallout from the more than 2,000 test explosions conducted since 1945. We know that radiation exposure can cause sickness and death, but it has other, more insidious effects. Even those who do not exhibit the symptoms of radiation sickness may find that they have assumed a kind of second class citizenship. The dehumanizing experience of radiation exposure may result in the removal of whole communities from their homes, the loss of traditional lifestyles and occupations, loss of traditional diets, the severing of ties with ancestors and traditional knowledge. It can mean continued habitation on contaminated land resulting in the internalizing of radiation by subsequent generations. In Nuclear Bodies, Robert Jacobs re-envisions the history of radiation casualties over the past 75 years as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds whose populations were powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies. This comprehensive account of the history of radiation exposure will necessitate a profound rethinking of the meaning and costs of the Cold War"--
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| ISBN | 9780300230338
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