Bo Jacobs

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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)

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Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· 7d

*The Flight That Disappeared* (1961) A #nuclear scientist, a rocket scientist and a mathematician are taken from a flight frozen in time and put on trial for their crimes by people of the future in this morality play. Spoiler alert:

Soundstage image of three people facing about ten people in a mist

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· 7d

Image of Donald Trump staring at his fingers with text that says, “Where Is The Dealmaker?”

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· 10d

#Nuclear Deterrence: I know there's security in here somewhere…

Simpsons frame, homer looking into the barrel of a rifle in his home

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jul 16

My business failures were not failures, but were “manufactured by the media," yeah, that's what they were…

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.

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jul 12

"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."

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jul 1

#Fukushima whiskey, and Cuban cigars. It’s good to be in #Hiroshima.

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jul 1

Kokuro, Japan, target of a [#nuclear](skeets://tag?tag=nuclear) attack on August 9, 1945, left alone because of cloud cover and smoke. Today, cloud cover again.

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jun 28

Trump awarded Inaugural Gaslighting Peace Prize

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jun 28

Mushrooms in the #Hiroshima Peace Park

White mushrooms among grass and rails along a river

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jun 25

A reminder that it is not easy to find Ground Zero in Hiroshima

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jun 24

As the typhoon bears down on #Hiroshima I take my first morning walk since I got back.

Old white guy with an umbrella in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome while it is raining.

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· May 24

Cars from Pripyat parked in front of the National #Chornobyl Nuclear Museum, taken during a visit in 2019

Multiple old cars are parked in front of a yellow building

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· May 24

Attacking both the site, and the museum: “National Chornobyl Museum heavily damaged in massive Russian attack” #Chernobyl www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Fire crews try to put out a fire at the National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv was damaged by Russian shelling

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· May 19

“#Radiation Makes People Invisible: A Global #Hibakusha Perspective” The millions exposed to radiation since #Hiroshima #nuclear #ColdWar apjjf.org/2014/12/31/r...

Fukushima school children play in an indoor sandbox (photo: Toru Hanai)

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· May 15

Ah Portland... #PDX

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”

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· May 9

Hanford! "The spill of cesium and strontium in the soil beneath the 324 Building is so radioactively hot that it would be lethal to a worker on direct contact within two minutes, DOE has said previously.” #Hanford #nuclear www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/h...

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

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Apr 25

#BALTIC WORLDS contains a special themed section this month: The #Chornobyl disaster 40 years along. Lived memories Glad to have contributed a review article #openaccess #Chernobyl balticworlds.com/wp-content/u...

Image of journal cover highlighting article:
Introduction.
Chornobyl in the fog of war
40 years after the disaster

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Apr 10

“These are not the pedophiles you are looking for…”

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Apr 2

Nuclear weapons are threatening us! Nuclear reactors are going to save us! Tell me how the plot ends AI, I'm riveted. #nuclear #AI

Image of two cooling towers for nuclear reactors in a field, with smiley faces painted on the towers

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 25

When are you gonna face it honey, the Moon gave up on you

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"

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 14

There it is! Khang Island!

Image of Kang and Kodos of the Simpsons on their spaceship looking at earth and laughing

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 10

“Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in #Fukushima” How models of harm from #radiation established after the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki misses many risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Workers on a hillside along a road in a forest, scrapping the soil to put into bags

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 4

British troops advance on Chess Board

Image of formal dress British troops with red coats and fuzzy ball hats

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 4

Alito shits his bed

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 4

Donroe Doctrine: You get a nuke! And you get a nuke! Everyone gets nukes!! Look under your seats!!!

Donald Trump at the State of the Union with Vance and Johnson behind him, they all look happy

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 1

Today is Nuclear Victim's Remembrance Day in the #RMI. In 1954, the US detonated its largest #nuclear weapon, killing and sickening people across the mid-Pacific. “The #Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene” www.researchgate.net/publication/...

US military superimposing the Bravo fallout cloud on the US eastern seaboard showing deadly fallout would stretch into Canada

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Mar 1

Wow, the #BBC4 show, “Fukushima: Days that Shocked the World” really leans hard on the victim blaming #radiophobia crap. #Fukushima #nuclear

Poster for the show, with the title and a Japanese adult putting a gas mask on while wearing a tyvek suit

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Feb 17

The part of Bozos, since long before Bonzo #nuclear

Image of Ronald Reagan with a quote, “all the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk”

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Feb 4

Just one of the boxes I grabbed to load stuff at the #Costco register. Notice the seal in the upper right corner. Glad I had only the box and not the apples.

Photo of a fruit box for star apples with a seal saying “treated by irradiation”

Bo Jacobs@bojacobs· Jan 12

Breaking News: in shocking development, Trump purchases Nobel Prize in Chemistry instead of Peace. "I have the best chemistry”