Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Biographic Data
| ID | 460908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Darwin Hamblin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob Darwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamblin |
| SIGNATURE | HAMBLIN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6208-1166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration
In Wild by Design, Laura J. Martin offers a history of ecological restoration in the United States that is both critical of its past and hopeful about its future. Ecological restoration refers to efforts to restore past biotic relationships among species. We tend to think of it as saving species from extinction, restoring their habitats, and helping them to thrive again. But since the nineteenth century, it has entailed a range of interventions, …
Without Anger and Partiality”
This article explores atomic agriculture through the lens of political shelter, focusing on examples from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enthusiasm for atomic energy techniques, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s, was an abnormality in the sense that their perceived value—to society possibly, to governments certainly—overruled conventional arguments. Though later debates about atomic energy o…
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
Journal Article Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk. Get access Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xix, 353. Cloth $49.95. Jacob Darwin Hamblin Jacob Darwin Hamblin Oregon State University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ame…
Aligning missions: Nuclear technical assistance, the IAEA, and national ambitions in Pakistan
Drawn from the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the British National Archives, and other sources, the present essay analyzes nuclear technical assistance in central Asia, focusing largely on Pakistan. It discusses collaborations with American and British institutions in the 1960s and later efforts to work under the auspices of the IAEA. The essay suggests that the IAEA’s mission in the 1960s and early 1970s, namely its leaders’…
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century by William Rankin
Reviewed by: After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century by William Rankin Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. By William Rankin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 416. Hardcover $55. What do Inuit hunters and guided missiles have in common? In the twenty-first century, they both rely …
Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era
Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionAccess Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump EraJacob Darwin HamblinJacob Darwin Hamblin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAfter the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2017…
The Invention of Sustainability
U.S. President George H. W. Bush captured the malleable meaning of sustainable development when he announced at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that “to sustain development, we must protect the environment. And to protect the environment, we must sustain development” (261). Sustainable development might call to mind a managerial ethos similar to that of early twentieth-century American conservationist Gifford Pinchot, who suggested that h…
Quickening nature's pulse: Atomic agriculture at the International Atomic Energy Agency
Mutation breeders in the 1960s seemed poised to use atomic energy to speed up mutation rates in plants in order to develop new crop varieties, for the benefit of all people. Although skepticism had slowed this work in the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nurtured the scientific field, its community of experts, and an imagined version of the future that put humans in control of their destiny. The IAEA acted as a center …
The Nuclearization of Iran in the Seventies
Scholars remain divided about how Western governments handled the issue of proliferation during Iran’s turn toward nuclear technology in the seventies. The present essay provides an interpretation that takes into account economic strategy during the global petroleum crisis. Rather than focus on the dangers of proliferation, European and American scientists and diplomats encouraged Iran to build a nuclear-intensive future, laying the foundation of…
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Journal Article Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America Get access Scott Kaufman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 295 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1278–1279, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau128 Published: 01 March 2014
Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values
Although oceanographers such as Roger Revelle are typically associated with key indicators of anthropogenic change, he and other scientists at midcentury had very different scientific priorities and ways of seeing the oceans. How can we join the narrative of the triumph of mathematical, dynamic oceanography with the environmental narrative? Dynamic methods entailed a broad set of values that touched the professional lives of marine scientists in …
The Vulnerability of Nations: Food Security in the Aftermath of World War II
The present essay focuses on the scientific approaches emerging from the war that attempted to identify key risks to food security. It shows how a number of scientists in the United States and Britain addressed the problem of human vulnerability in the immediate postwar years, prior to the implementation of the Marshall Plan. The goal of the essay is to highlight how wartime experiences informed notions of food security within international organ…
Fukushima and the Motifs of Nuclear History
Nuclear narratives convey responsibility (or lack thereof), and historical understandings are enlisted to stake out defensible positions in times of crisis. As historians, we need to be conscious of the discursive power of the stories we tell and to reflect critically on them. Otherwise we put ourselves in the position of reinforcing past narratives that were contrived in the first place to deflect blame, avoid responsibility, and frustrate accou…
Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element (review)
Reviewed by: Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element. By Jeremy Bernstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+194. $17.95. Plutonium is an exemplary case of fine science writing, combining scientific expertise and smooth narrative, enlivened by a personal touch. A physicist and former staff writer for The New Yorker, Jeremy …
Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and th…
Environmentalism for the Atlantic Alliance: Nato's Experiment with the “Challenges of Modern Society”
As new environmental programs, organizations, and laws proliferated in the late 1960s and 1970s, U.S. President Richard Nixon began using environmental cooperation as part of his foreign policy. But his decision to pair global environmental action with the most powerful military alliance in history—NATO—puzzled nearly everyone, including the NATO allies. Recently scholars have pointed out the role of the Nixon administration in inaugurating “envi…
Let there be light … and bread: The United Nations, the developing world, and atomic energy’s Green Revolution
Although President Eisenhower's 1953 'Atoms for Peace' speech typically is associated with the promotion of nuclear power, it also recommended other peaceful uses of the atom, including applications in agriculture. 'Developing' countries in particular took a keen interest in food preservation, grain disinfestation, fertilizer studies, insect control, and mutation breeding, all using irradiation. A conflict of philosophies emerged at the United Na…
Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972
Journal Article Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972 Get access Jacob Darwin Hamblin Jacob Darwin Hamblin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 539–560, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00712.x Published: 18 August 2008
Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963 (review)
Reviewed by: Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963 Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963. By Benjamin P. Greene . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+358. $65. Dwight Eisenhower never succeeded in negotiating a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing with the Soviet Union. Benjamin P. Greene offers an intriguing argument to explain wh…
Hallowed Lords of the Sea: Scientific Authority and Radioactive Waste in the United States, Britain, and France
In 1959, oceanographers and atomic energy officials met at an international conference in Monaco to discuss the scientific aspects of dumping radioactive waste into the ocean. The result was a broad consensus among oceanographers that there was not enough scientific knowledge of the oceans to merit large‐scale dumping. Because nuclear nations already had been dumping for years, the new consensus challenged existing practices. This paper focuses o…
Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace
This paper evaluates the outlooks and goals of those who helped to put Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" into action at the international level, as experts working with the United Nations, particularly through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It highlights of the failure of UNESCO to play a leading role in the scientific assessments of Atoms for Peace, and focuses upon the role of social scientists in th…
Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove , by Peter Goodchild and, The Bomb: A Life , by Gerard J. DeGroot
Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: The Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea during the 1960s
claims to the contrary throughout the cold war, Russia admitted in 1993 that, for decades, the Soviet Union routinely had dumped radioactive waste into the sea. Although Westerners had long suspected as much, the extent of the dumping provided appalling evidence of the abuses possible without public participation in or international accountability for environmental policies. In addition to discharges and packaged wastes, the Soviet Union sank as …
The Navy's "Sophisticated" Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956
Although it often chafed at scientists' wishes to promote international cooperation, the U.S. Navy was a great supporter of such initiatives during the 1950s. This essay examines the impetus for the Navy's alliance with scientists to bolster its antisubmarine capabilities, the reasons for its acceptance of international cooperation as a means to ensure its technological capabilities during a general war, and the source of its clashes with scienti…
The Navy's "Sophisticated" Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956
Although it often chafed at scientists' wishes to promote international cooperation, the U.S. Navy was a great supporter of such initiatives during the 1950s. This essay examines the impetus for the Navy's alliance with scientists to bolster its antisubmarine capabilities, the reasons for its acceptance of international cooperation as a means to ensure its technological capabilities during a general war, and the source of its clashes with scienti…
Fukushima and the Motifs of Nuclear History
Nuclear narratives convey responsibility (or lack thereof), and historical understandings are enlisted to stake out defensible positions in times of crisis. As historians, we need to be conscious of the discursive power of the stories we tell and to reflect critically on them. Otherwise we put ourselves in the position of reinforcing past narratives that were contrived in the first place to deflect blame, avoid responsibility, and frustrate accou…
Environmentalism for the Atlantic Alliance: Nato's Experiment with the “Challenges of Modern Society”
As new environmental programs, organizations, and laws proliferated in the late 1960s and 1970s, U.S. President Richard Nixon began using environmental cooperation as part of his foreign policy. But his decision to pair global environmental action with the most powerful military alliance in history—NATO—puzzled nearly everyone, including the NATO allies. Recently scholars have pointed out the role of the Nixon administration in inaugurating “envi…
Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: The Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea during the 1960s
claims to the contrary throughout the cold war, Russia admitted in 1993 that, for decades, the Soviet Union routinely had dumped radioactive waste into the sea. Although Westerners had long suspected as much, the extent of the dumping provided appalling evidence of the abuses possible without public participation in or international accountability for environmental policies. In addition to discharges and packaged wastes, the Soviet Union sank as …
Visions of International Scientific Cooperation: The Case of Oceanic Science, 1920–1955
Quickening nature's pulse: Atomic agriculture at the International Atomic Energy Agency
Mutation breeders in the 1960s seemed poised to use atomic energy to speed up mutation rates in plants in order to develop new crop varieties, for the benefit of all people. Although skepticism had slowed this work in the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nurtured the scientific field, its community of experts, and an imagined version of the future that put humans in control of their destiny. The IAEA acted as a center …
Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values
Although oceanographers such as Roger Revelle are typically associated with key indicators of anthropogenic change, he and other scientists at midcentury had very different scientific priorities and ways of seeing the oceans. How can we join the narrative of the triumph of mathematical, dynamic oceanography with the environmental narrative? Dynamic methods entailed a broad set of values that touched the professional lives of marine scientists in …
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Journal Article Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America Get access Scott Kaufman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 295 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1278–1279, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau128 Published: 01 March 2014
Hallowed Lords of the Sea: Scientific Authority and Radioactive Waste in the United States, Britain, and France
In 1959, oceanographers and atomic energy officials met at an international conference in Monaco to discuss the scientific aspects of dumping radioactive waste into the ocean. The result was a broad consensus among oceanographers that there was not enough scientific knowledge of the oceans to merit large‐scale dumping. Because nuclear nations already had been dumping for years, the new consensus challenged existing practices. This paper focuses o…
Without Anger and Partiality”
This article explores atomic agriculture through the lens of political shelter, focusing on examples from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enthusiasm for atomic energy techniques, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s, was an abnormality in the sense that their perceived value—to society possibly, to governments certainly—overruled conventional arguments. Though later debates about atomic energy o…
Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace
This paper evaluates the outlooks and goals of those who helped to put Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" into action at the international level, as experts working with the United Nations, particularly through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It highlights of the failure of UNESCO to play a leading role in the scientific assessments of Atoms for Peace, and focuses upon the role of social scientists in th…
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942–1992 by Rodney P. Carlisle and Joan M. Zenzen
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 365 manded an armored machine to cross trenches. The design of the first tanks was carried out for the committee by two engineers: Wil liam Tritton, the managing director of a Lincolnshire engineering firm, and Walter Wilson, a Cambridge-trained officer of the RNAS. Hovering around was a clear influence from H. G. Wells’s 1903 “The Land Ironclads.” Interestingly, too, right into the interwar years, tank enthus…
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942-1992
by type 5 Power level upgrades of production reactors 6 Reactor closings during the plutonium glut period, 1964
Visions of International Scientific Cooperation: The Case of Oceanic Science, 1920–1955
Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: The Disposal of Radioactive Waste at Sea during the 1960s
claims to the contrary throughout the cold war, Russia admitted in 1993 that, for decades, the Soviet Union routinely had dumped radioactive waste into the sea. Although Westerners had long suspected as much, the extent of the dumping provided appalling evidence of the abuses possible without public participation in or international accountability for environmental policies. In addition to discharges and packaged wastes, the Soviet Union sank as …
The Navy's "Sophisticated" Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, the Limits of Internationalism, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956
Although it often chafed at scientists' wishes to promote international cooperation, the U.S. Navy was a great supporter of such initiatives during the 1950s. This essay examines the impetus for the Navy's alliance with scientists to bolster its antisubmarine capabilities, the reasons for its acceptance of international cooperation as a means to ensure its technological capabilities during a general war, and the source of its clashes with scienti…
Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove , by Peter Goodchild and, The Bomb: A Life , by Gerard J. DeGroot
Hallowed Lords of the Sea: Scientific Authority and Radioactive Waste in the United States, Britain, and France
In 1959, oceanographers and atomic energy officials met at an international conference in Monaco to discuss the scientific aspects of dumping radioactive waste into the ocean. The result was a broad consensus among oceanographers that there was not enough scientific knowledge of the oceans to merit large‐scale dumping. Because nuclear nations already had been dumping for years, the new consensus challenged existing practices. This paper focuses o…
Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace
This paper evaluates the outlooks and goals of those who helped to put Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" into action at the international level, as experts working with the United Nations, particularly through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It highlights of the failure of UNESCO to play a leading role in the scientific assessments of Atoms for Peace, and focuses upon the role of social scientists in th…
Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963 (review)
Reviewed by: Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963 Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963. By Benjamin P. Greene . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+358. $65. Dwight Eisenhower never succeeded in negotiating a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing with the Soviet Union. Benjamin P. Greene offers an intriguing argument to explain wh…
Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972
Journal Article Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972 Get access Jacob Darwin Hamblin Jacob Darwin Hamblin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 539–560, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00712.x Published: 18 August 2008
Let there be light … and bread: The United Nations, the developing world, and atomic energy’s Green Revolution
Although President Eisenhower's 1953 'Atoms for Peace' speech typically is associated with the promotion of nuclear power, it also recommended other peaceful uses of the atom, including applications in agriculture. 'Developing' countries in particular took a keen interest in food preservation, grain disinfestation, fertilizer studies, insect control, and mutation breeding, all using irradiation. A conflict of philosophies emerged at the United Na…
Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and th…
Environmentalism for the Atlantic Alliance: Nato's Experiment with the “Challenges of Modern Society”
As new environmental programs, organizations, and laws proliferated in the late 1960s and 1970s, U.S. President Richard Nixon began using environmental cooperation as part of his foreign policy. But his decision to pair global environmental action with the most powerful military alliance in history—NATO—puzzled nearly everyone, including the NATO allies. Recently scholars have pointed out the role of the Nixon administration in inaugurating “envi…
Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element (review)
Reviewed by: Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element. By Jeremy Bernstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+194. $17.95. Plutonium is an exemplary case of fine science writing, combining scientific expertise and smooth narrative, enlivened by a personal touch. A physicist and former staff writer for The New Yorker, Jeremy …
The Vulnerability of Nations: Food Security in the Aftermath of World War II
The present essay focuses on the scientific approaches emerging from the war that attempted to identify key risks to food security. It shows how a number of scientists in the United States and Britain addressed the problem of human vulnerability in the immediate postwar years, prior to the implementation of the Marshall Plan. The goal of the essay is to highlight how wartime experiences informed notions of food security within international organ…
Fukushima and the Motifs of Nuclear History
Nuclear narratives convey responsibility (or lack thereof), and historical understandings are enlisted to stake out defensible positions in times of crisis. As historians, we need to be conscious of the discursive power of the stories we tell and to reflect critically on them. Otherwise we put ourselves in the position of reinforcing past narratives that were contrived in the first place to deflect blame, avoid responsibility, and frustrate accou…
The Nuclearization of Iran in the Seventies
Scholars remain divided about how Western governments handled the issue of proliferation during Iran’s turn toward nuclear technology in the seventies. The present essay provides an interpretation that takes into account economic strategy during the global petroleum crisis. Rather than focus on the dangers of proliferation, European and American scientists and diplomats encouraged Iran to build a nuclear-intensive future, laying the foundation of…
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Journal Article Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America Get access Scott Kaufman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 295 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1278–1279, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau128 Published: 01 March 2014
Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values
Although oceanographers such as Roger Revelle are typically associated with key indicators of anthropogenic change, he and other scientists at midcentury had very different scientific priorities and ways of seeing the oceans. How can we join the narrative of the triumph of mathematical, dynamic oceanography with the environmental narrative? Dynamic methods entailed a broad set of values that touched the professional lives of marine scientists in …
Quickening nature's pulse: Atomic agriculture at the International Atomic Energy Agency
Mutation breeders in the 1960s seemed poised to use atomic energy to speed up mutation rates in plants in order to develop new crop varieties, for the benefit of all people. Although skepticism had slowed this work in the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nurtured the scientific field, its community of experts, and an imagined version of the future that put humans in control of their destiny. The IAEA acted as a center …
The Invention of Sustainability
U.S. President George H. W. Bush captured the malleable meaning of sustainable development when he announced at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that “to sustain development, we must protect the environment. And to protect the environment, we must sustain development” (261). Sustainable development might call to mind a managerial ethos similar to that of early twentieth-century American conservationist Gifford Pinchot, who suggested that h…
Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era
Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionAccess Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump EraJacob Darwin HamblinJacob Darwin Hamblin Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAfter the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2017…
After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century by William Rankin
Reviewed by: After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century by William Rankin Jacob Darwin Hamblin (bio) After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. By William Rankin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 416. Hardcover $55. What do Inuit hunters and guided missiles have in common? In the twenty-first century, they both rely …
Aligning missions: Nuclear technical assistance, the IAEA, and national ambitions in Pakistan
Drawn from the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the British National Archives, and other sources, the present essay analyzes nuclear technical assistance in central Asia, focusing largely on Pakistan. It discusses collaborations with American and British institutions in the 1960s and later efforts to work under the auspices of the IAEA. The essay suggests that the IAEA’s mission in the 1960s and early 1970s, namely its leaders’…
Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
Journal Article Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk. Get access Thomas R. Wellock. Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xix, 353. Cloth $49.95. Jacob Darwin Hamblin Jacob Darwin Hamblin Oregon State University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ame…
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