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Nuclear Allergy?
Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, radiation
Added on Monday, March 28th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
In the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese often proclaimed their society to be “allergic” to nuclear technology—particularly nuclear weapons. What has been far less acknowledged in Japan is a persistent pattern of…
Nuclear Lessons
Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, nuclear energy, radiation
Added on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Barbara Rose Johnston and Hugh Gusterson ponder nuclear realities at the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences Barbara Rose Johnston: Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce…
Nuclear Power, Fears and the Limits of Democracy
Tags: Anthropology, disaster, japan, Media, Nuclear power plant, radiation
Added on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Keibo Oiwa, a Japanese cultural anthropologist and environmentalist, speaks to Democracy Now about the current nuclear crisis: And I’m really realizing again that, you know, democracy is so hollow now. I mean, we don’t have power. This is not…
Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath
Tags: Chernobyl, disaster, Nuclear power plant, public health, radiation
Added on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 to Articles sections.
*This is a special feature from the second, atomic themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* “Nothing happened” When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the early morning of April 26, 1986, it blasted a radioactive plume as high as…
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