Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha

The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war

“[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature

“Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs’s guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End

In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of...