Grateful for the complex and detailed review of my book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.
NYT video about the Palomares nuclear accident over Spain in 1966.
A US h-bomber was refueling in mid-air over Southern Spain. Both exploded and four h-bombs fell onto a small Spanish beach town (2 into the Mediterranean). This film examines health consequences to the clean up crew.
Fantastic new film. It does far more than what the headline says, it is a thoughtful inquiry, especially into global warming, and highlights many voices not traditionally included.
"New film underscores Doomsday Clock’s importance and Bulletin history"
@bojacobs@sts@histodons@nuclearhumanities This looks intriguing and well done. I'm going to see if I can get a group of friends together to watch it this weekend. $10 to rent is not bad.
The power of art to communicate complex information easily.
You can see charts of the total number of nuclear weapon tests (2,000+), or of the locations of those tests, or the years. However, this video communicates that history in a visceral, embodied way.
Since the effects of nuclear detonations cannot be contained at "test sites," specifically the immense clouds of radioactive fallout, when is a "test” actually an "attack" on those living downwind?
Every nuclear weapon state strategized the use of fallout as a primary method to attack communities in enemy territory. Is the act of inflicting these fallout clouds on downwind communities violence? Or research?
@bojacobs@sts@histodons@nuclearhumanities
I show this art piece in class sometimes - and it's so interesting to see the expression change on the students faces. They just had no idea, and the numbers don't speak to them like the art does.
There are two forms of nuclear colonialism. The extraction of natural resources from traditional indigenous and colonized lands. And the colonialism of treating a place as empty, as "no place" where there is "no one" and there are no consequences for nuclear testing. Nuclear weapon states have always very intentionally "selected the irradiated." Read, Nuclear Bodies: The Global #Hibakusha.
You try to get two glass beads (to the left in this photo), each with a tail so that when you get them in the holes for Hiroshima & #Nagasaki, the back end stands up like a mushroom cloud.
Mass murder triumphalism
Photo of original item in my office here in #Hiroshima.