Bo Jacobs

@bojacobs.bsky.social

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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

Photo of old white man in front of four cooling towers with the text: NUCLEAR POWER The 'Nuclear Nightmare' That Was Manufactured by the Media Despite decades of panic, a new reactor has been approved for the first time in 10 years.
"Silent War: In the Shadow of Atomic Bombs PBS America, 7.55pm Everyone knows about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet this disturbing two-part documentary explores the consequences of the more than 2000 nuclear bombs that were tested between 1945-1991. Beyond stories of poisoned, uninhabitable lands, tonight’s most sinister detail concerns how far fallout from nuclear tests can travel."
A bottle of whiskey held in two hands
White mushrooms among grass and rails along a river
A brown marker on a street in the rain
Old white guy with an umbrella in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome while it is raining.
Multiple old cars are parked in front of a yellow building
Fire crews try to put out a fire at the National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv was damaged by Russian shelling
Fukushima school children play in an indoor sandbox (photo: Toru Hanai)
Photo of sign saying: “WIPE YOUR FEET! Are you giving ghosts a free ride? When you walk over their graves, the ghosts who reside there can cling to your shoes, then come off later and haunt where they are unwanted. Help protect this fragile boundary between the land of the living and the spirits of the dead - don't accidentally introduce invasive ghosts. PLEASE USE GHOST BRUSH BEFORE LEAVING THE CEMETERY City of Portland Bureau of supernatural Containment”
Workers in hazmat suits move material along a rail in an industrial setting. Workers at Hanford have been preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill under the 324 Building for six years. The spill’s contamination recently was discovered to be significantly larger than expected. Courtesy Department of Energy
Image of journal cover highlighting article: Introduction. Chornobyl in the fog of war 40 years after the disaster
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Image of two cooling towers for nuclear reactors in a field, with smiley faces painted on the towers
copy of an X post by the white house showing th moon and saying “america will never give up on the moon again” and “the goal is not just to reach the moon, but to stay"
Image of Kang and Kodos of the Simpsons on their spaceship looking at earth and laughing
Workers on a hillside along a road in a forest, scrapping the soil to put into bags
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
Donald Trump at the State of the Union with Vance and Johnson behind him, they all look happy
US military superimposing the Bravo fallout cloud on the US eastern seaboard showing deadly fallout would stretch into Canada
Poster for the show, with the title and a Japanese adult putting a gas mask on while wearing a tyvek suit
Image of Ronald Reagan with a quote, “all the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk”
Photo of a fruit box for star apples with a seal saying “treated by irradiation”
Graphic of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
Image of a woman with a camera in front of three ICE SUVs, modeled on the image of the protester in front of tanks at Tianeman Square
south park uncle jimbo and ned in a graphic star with the text “they’re coming right at us”
Marco Rubio in a hallway bowing to a lamp
photo of Donald Trump with his mouth open in a look of surprise
Screen grab of BYTESEU webpage with article title “the nuclear power entrepreneurs getting rich from AI” and two slick dudes sitting in a hip place behind the text
Image of Donald Trump with almost closed eyes and text that says, “Trump Signs Bill Authorizing Eyes to Stay Open”
image of several nuclear power plants beyond a city
American military film crew filming “surrender” of Bikini Atoll
image of Steve Bannon’s head and face
Image of east wing of White House being torn down with text that says “Search for Epstein Files intensifies”
An old white man standing in front of a monument with trees and hills behind
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Promo page for the Keynote Dialogue
Image from The Simpsons showing a car driving past. Store with the the sign BLOODBATH & BEYOND GUN SHOP
Moon rising over a river
Two older men standing in front of the ocean at a beach with the sun setting behind them
Chinzei School, 1,500 feet from ground zero in Nagasaki. Shot of a devastated interior of a school building
'Hiroshima A-Bomb Survivors Face Brighter Future,' proclaimed the text accompanying this photograph of Mitsuko Kuranoto and Emiko Takemoto as they arrive at Mitchel Air Force Base on Long Island, NY. Source: AP Wire 9 May 1955.
Still image from the film Rashomon of the ruins of a building in medieval Japan in a rainstorm
Photo of a metal toy box with a plastic cover, inside is a graphic showing an atomic bomb above a map of Japan.
Graphic of 11 different maps of the US each showing increasing spread of a cloud of fallout
Photograph Guardian webpage of older man at a desk with the text: 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
5 mm (Photo via: D. Álvarez-Alónso et al., Archaeological and Antropological Sciences 17, 2025)
Cartoon still of Mr. Garrison with the “entity” on South Park, a balding man standing next to a tech gadget you climb into
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Image of a stone sculpture with origami cranes and nuclear fuel rods sticking out
copy of the cover showing a stone sculpture with Hiroshima cranes and nuclear fuel rods
Simpsons frame of Lionel Hutz and Marge and the smoking monkey. Hutz is saying "Look! He's taking another puff!"
Two men standing in a field pointint guys at each other’s heads with text saying, “nuclear weapons cannot save you"
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