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Robert A. Jacobs <jacobs@peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp> Hiroshima Peace Institute History and culture of nuclear weapons and warfare in Cold War America, Science and technology in American culture, Popular Culture, War and Peace Studies, American Triumphalism, Environmental History |
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| Web Page: | https://serv.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/English/index.html |
| List Affiliations: | Emeritus Review Editor for H-Peace |
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Bio: PUBLICATIONS The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009) (editor) Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010 "'There Are No Civilians, We Are All At War': Nuclear War Shelter and Survival Narratives During the Early Cold War," The Journal of American Culture 30:4 (Dec 2007) 418-433 "Good Bomb/Bad Bomb: Talking About Atomic Tests in Nevada," Interdisciplinary Humanities 24:1 (Spring 2007) 65-82 RESEARCH PROJECTS Project Coordinator: “Filling the Hole in the Future: Art and Popular Culture in Response to the Atom Bomb,” Hiroshima Peace Institute Research Project, 2005-2007 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES "Curing the Bomb: Social Scientists Analyze the Roots of Human Violence After Hiroshima," presented at the International Society for Universal Dialogue's Seventh World Congress in Hiroshima, Japan, June 2007 "Radiation As a Cultural Talisman in Cold War Popular Culture," presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Joint National Conference, Boston, MA, April 2007 ”Good Bomb/Bad Bomb: American Nuclear Narratives During the Atmospheric Testing Era,” presented at the International Committee for the History of Technology, in Leicester, United Kingdom, August 2006 ”Narratives of Survival Under Atomic Attack,” presented to the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, Feb. 2006 ”The Alchemical Narrative: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation,” presented to the Cold War Science and Technology Colloquium at Carnegie-Mellon University, Feb. 2000 "Sharing the Horizon with the Atomic Bomb," presented at the History of Science Society Conference, San Diego, Nov. 1997 "The Atomic Egg: Nuclear Tests and the Radioactive Generation of Monsters and Aliens in Fifties Sci-Fi," presented at the "Atomic Age Opens" Conference, Bowling Green, OH, July 1995 |
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