{"product_id":"nuclear-bodies-the-global-hibakusha-9780300230338","title":"Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert A. Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war.\"--Andrew Robinson, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.\"--Norma Field, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H-bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety-six U.S. nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibakusha. Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert A. Jacobs re-envisions the history of the Cold War as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds against populations powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies. His comprehensive account necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45029325078679,"sku":"9780300230338","price":3650.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300230338.webp?v=1769203688","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/nuclear-bodies-the-global-hibakusha-9780300230338","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}