This film reveals how the United States—after having dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands during the Cold War—studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the native population.
The essay sheds light on the implications of Chernobyl as a national site of memory in Germany, France, and Belarus. The comparative perspective reveals the importance of underlying structures such as national (nuclear) politics, elite and expert culture, environmentalism, and the role of individual agency.
This essay traces the history of the nuclear risk discourse and policy in West Germany from the first use of the term GAU in the 1960s to the present. A close examination of the term reveals that it is in fact ambiguous, oscillating between support of nuclear energy and criticism of it.
Nuclear Humanities showcases interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of nuclear harm through a five-day workshop sponsored by Whitman College’s 2016 O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Global Studies.
When a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, residents suspect the disaster is the work of an unlikely culprit—the atomic bomb.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Brown is interviewed on her new book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future.
Godzilla has come to represent Japan’s Triple Disasters and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki within one singular body.
A book by Robert A. Jacobs on the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
In this video, Bernd Sommer (TU Dortmund, Germany) and Frank Reichherzer (Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr) presents on the topic: “Greening Military? Past Emissions and Future Pathways.”
In this chapter of the online exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu writes about the impacts of US nuclear testing.
