Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha

By Robert A. Jacobs

Hibakusha — bomb-affected people — is a term that began with the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Nuclear Bodies, historian Robert A. Jacobs expands this concept to encompass the millions of people worldwide whose bodies and communities have been damaged by nuclear testing, uranium mining, and radioactive contamination.

A powerful and necessary work of history, this book documents the human cost of the nuclear age across the globe — from the Marshall Islands to Kazakhstan, from Nevada to Australia — and challenges us to recognise the full scale of nuclear harm.

Publisher: Yale University Press