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Japan Forum: Fukushima and the Motifs of Nuclear History
How do we tell the story of Fukushima? The finger-pointing frenzy that occurred in the wake of the crisis is extremely useful for historians. As people tried to blame each other, they enlisted a...
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My O'Sullivan Memorial Lecture on nuclear technology is now online
Back in November, I wasn’t sure if anyone would mind that I used Wikileaks for historical research. Some might have called it unpatriotic. But I should have expected that no one seemed to mind (or...
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Can’t Historians Predict the Future?
Nostradamus could have been a policy wonk. My favorite not-so-witty quip during my public talks is “historians are always asked to predict the future.” It usually gets a chuckle. I say it as a...
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The IAEA demands nations open up to its inspectors, yet is itself a tightly...
By Jacob Hamblin, Oregon State University When we agree to send our young men and women to war, we expect the reasons why to be made clear. At least some of us will want to subject that explanation to...
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