Robert A Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6188202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bruker (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0180-8266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Atomic Collective
Discordant Memories
Reviewed by: Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields Robert (Bo) Jacobs (bio) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture By Alison Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 256. "Containment—the process of gaining control over something harmful," writes Alison Fields, "is a key mechanism for responding to traumatic memories" (p. 16). Her book proceeds to explore nuclear-theme…
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
Four Problems Solved by the Probabilistic Language of Thought
We argue for the advantages of the probabilistic language of thought (pLOT), a recently emerging approach to modeling human cognition. Work using this framework demonstrates how the pLOT (a) refines the debate between symbols and statistics in cognitive modeling, (b) permits theories that draw on insights from both nativist and empiricist approaches, (c) explains the origins of novel and complex computational concepts, and (d) provides a framewor…
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
David Monteyne. Fallout Shelter
Recent scholarship has documented the growth of the United States' Cold War civil defense program into more nuanced and subtle sectors of American society. Tracy C. Davis's Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (2007) began this inquiry by looking at the performative aspects of public civil defense drills (or as she concludes, the rehearsal value of the drills), and David Monteyne's new book expands this discourse through a dynamic …
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
Social Fallout
On March 1, 1954 a Japanese tuna trawler was at sea in the Marshall Islands. Quite unexpectedly grey ash began to fall like snow and covered the boat and crew. It was not snow; it was radioactive fallout from a nuclear test that had been conducted by the United States hours earlier 90 miles from the exclusion zone proclaimed by the US. This nuclear explosion, known as the Bravo Test, was the first detonation of a deliverable hydrogen bomb. The 15…
Curing the Atomic Bomb Within
This article looks at the initial response of the social science community to the advent of nuclear weapons and their use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The idea that human society as a whole was not sophisticated enough to responsibly steward nuclear weapons was widespread among American sociologists and psychologists: if society needed to change, many social scientists felt compelled to engineer that transformation. Fundamental to this effort was a…
Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues
There Are No Civilians; We Are All at War”
Four Problems Solved by the Probabilistic Language of Thought
We argue for the advantages of the probabilistic language of thought (pLOT), a recently emerging approach to modeling human cognition. Work using this framework demonstrates how the pLOT (a) refines the debate between symbols and statistics in cognitive modeling, (b) permits theories that draw on insights from both nativist and empiricist approaches, (c) explains the origins of novel and complex computational concepts, and (d) provides a framewor…
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
There Are No Civilians; We Are All at War”
There Are No Civilians; We Are All at War”
Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues
Curing the Atomic Bomb Within
This article looks at the initial response of the social science community to the advent of nuclear weapons and their use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The idea that human society as a whole was not sophisticated enough to responsibly steward nuclear weapons was widespread among American sociologists and psychologists: if society needed to change, many social scientists felt compelled to engineer that transformation. Fundamental to this effort was a…
Social Fallout
On March 1, 1954 a Japanese tuna trawler was at sea in the Marshall Islands. Quite unexpectedly grey ash began to fall like snow and covered the boat and crew. It was not snow; it was radioactive fallout from a nuclear test that had been conducted by the United States hours earlier 90 miles from the exclusion zone proclaimed by the US. This nuclear explosion, known as the Bravo Test, was the first detonation of a deliverable hydrogen bomb. The 15…
David Monteyne. Fallout Shelter
Recent scholarship has documented the growth of the United States' Cold War civil defense program into more nuanced and subtle sectors of American society. Tracy C. Davis's Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (2007) began this inquiry by looking at the performative aspects of public civil defense drills (or as she concludes, the rehearsal value of the drills), and David Monteyne's new book expands this discourse through a dynamic …
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
Four Problems Solved by the Probabilistic Language of Thought
We argue for the advantages of the probabilistic language of thought (pLOT), a recently emerging approach to modeling human cognition. Work using this framework demonstrates how the pLOT (a) refines the debate between symbols and statistics in cognitive modeling, (b) permits theories that draw on insights from both nativist and empiricist approaches, (c) explains the origins of novel and complex computational concepts, and (d) provides a framewor…
Discordant Memories
Reviewed by: Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields Robert (Bo) Jacobs (bio) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture By Alison Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 256. "Containment—the process of gaining control over something harmful," writes Alison Fields, "is a key mechanism for responding to traumatic memories" (p. 16). Her book proceeds to explore nuclear-theme…
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
Atomic Collective
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 works) · Nuclear weapon (3 works) · Physics (3 works)