Research keywords (6):
popular culture studies
, war and peace studies
, nuclear testing
, hibakusha studies
, American history and culture
, Nuclear weapons
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2020 - 2022 American hibakusha: radiation affected communities inside of the United States of America
2018 - 2019 Nuclear power plant disasters: oral histories at Chernobyl and Windscale
2008 - 2011 The Study of the Use of Information Gathered at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission to Design Plans for Radiological Warfare and for Troop Participation in Nuclear Tests in the United States
Papers (30):
Mick Broderick, Robert Jacobs. Managing The Days: personal responsibility and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Asia-Pacific Journal. 2023. 21. 10
Four legs good, two legs bad: animals return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Arcadia. 2023. 21
Not seeing the contaminated forest for the decontaminated trees in Fukushima. The Asia-Pacific Journal. 2021. 19. 17
“Born violent: the birth of nuclear power”. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding. 2019. 7. 1. 9-29
Robert Jacobs. “The visible and the invisible when considering Northern European spent permanent spent nuclear fuel storage”. Hiroshima Peace Research Journal. 2018. 5. 13-33
The Pacific as a Fallout Sink
(Atomic Photographers Guild Speaker Series 2025)
Nuclear weapon development and possession as violence: the global hibakusha
(Hiroshima Peace Institute International Symposium, “Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing - ‘No More Hibaksha’ Now 2024)
Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha. How millions harmed by nuclear weapons and power have been made invisible during the Cold War and after
(History Seminar Series, University of New South Wales 2024)
Is Hiroshima still radioactive?: nuclear explosions and the environment
(Inaugural Hiroshima Seminar at the Museum of Literature Ireland 2024)
Greenwashing plutonium: transforming US nuclear weapon legacy sites into nature preserves
(Hiroshima, America, and Nuclear Legacies” symposium presented to the 49th annual conference of the Chugoku-Shikoku Association of American Studies 2022)
2009 - Project member Imagine Peace! Zurich University for the Arts
2009 - Project member Nonkilling History Research Committee, Center for Global Nonkilling
2006 - Historians Against the War Speakers Bureau
Association Membership(s) (4):
Japanese American Studies Society
, Society for the History of Technology
, Society for Social Studies of Science
, International Big History Association