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Robert Jacobs is an American historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University working on social and cultural aspects of nuclear technologies. He is the author of “The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age” (2010), the editor of “Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb” (2010), and the co-editor of “Images of Rupture in Civilization Between East and West: The Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media” (2014). He has published extensively on nuclear issues internationally. He is the lead researcher of the Global Hibakusha Project that examines the effects of radiation on communities, families and individuals in radiation affected communities around the world. He recently facilitated a Global Hibakusha Project workshop in the Marshall Islands for 3rd Generation hibakusha youth from 3 communities: Hiroshima, Kazakhstan and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This workshop focused on networking hinakusha youth globally using Web 2.0 technologies, and on training hibakusha youth to conduct oral history interviews with their elders in their home communities, helping to connect hibakusha youth with their community history.
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