Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Explorations in Science, Technology and the Natural Environment

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• Articles and Chapters
  • Fukushima and the Motifs of Nuclear History (Environmental History, 2012)
  • A Global Contamination Zone [on biological and radiological weapons] (Environmental Histories of the Cold War, 2010)
  • Environmentalism for the Atlantic Alliance [on NATO] (Environmental History, 2010)
  • Let there be Light… and Bread [on atomic energy applications in agriculture] (History and Technology, 2009)
  • Gods and Devils in the Details [on the London Dumping Convention of 1972] (Diplomatic History, 2008)
  • Les Politiques de Coopération Scientifique Internationale (60 Ans d’Histoire de L’UNESCO, 2007)
  • Mastery of Landscapes and Seascapes [on the International Geophysical Year] (Extremes, 2007)
  • Dispassionate and Objective Effort [on the BEAR report of 1956] (Journal of the History of Biology, 2006)
  • Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation [on atomic energy, social scientists, and the creation of UNSCEAR] (Technology & Culture, 2006)
  • Hallowed Lords of the Sea [radioactive waste in UK, US, and France] (Osiris, 2006)
  • Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War [on ocean dumping in the 1960s] (International History Review, 2002)
  • The Navy’s Sophisticated Pursuit of Science [on oceanographers and secrecy in the 1950s] (Isis, 2002)
  • Visions of International Scientific Cooperation [on marine science] (Minerva, 2000)
  • Science in Isolation: American Marine Geophysics Research [on the politics and science of plate tectonics] (Physics in Perspective, 2000)
• Books
  • Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Oxford, forthcoming)
  • Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Rutgers, 2008)
  • Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science (Washington, 2005)
  • Science in the Early Twentieth Century (ABC-CLIO, 2005)
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