Resources in English

Resources for Teaching & Activism

• The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
• CNIC (Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center) 原子力市民情報室
• Fresh Currents: Japan’s Flow from a Nuclear Past to a Renewable Future
• Fukushima Response
• Japan Focus
• Know Nuclear Waste
• Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – NYTimes.com
• NEIS (Nuclear Energy Information Service) Nuclear Illinois
• NEI (Nuclear Energy Institute)–Nuclear, Clean Air Energy Information on the Japan Earthquake and Reactors in That Region
• SimplyInfo: Crowd sourced information & analysis without focus on profit
• Teaching Resources for the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami | Edutopia
• Teach 3.11: a teaching resource for scholars and educators
• Toxipedia Connecting Science and People
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions Nuclear Power
• United States: Operational Facilities Nuclear Files.org
• Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons
• WANMEC Washington Nuclear Museum and Education Center

Syllabi

• Yuki Miyamoto – “Ethical Worlds: Moral Issues across Cultures — Atom Bomb Discourse Religious and Ethical Questions” DePaul University (PDF)
• Tanya Maus – “Hist202: Hiroshima’s Shadows” (Syllabus 202C-Spring 2010)Wittenberg University (PDF)
  • Narrating Sources Group Project-Instructions
  • Final Project
• Norma Field – “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Beyond” (Spring 2011) The University of Chicago (Google Document)
• Tomomi Yamaguchi – “Contemporary Japan” (Fall 2011) Montana State University (PDF)
• Tomomi Yamaguchi – “Popular Culture in/out of Japan” Montana State University (Spring 2012) (PDF)
• Tomomi Yamaguchi – “Contemporary Japan,” Montana State University (Fall 2012, hybrid course of online and face-to-face teaching) syllabus and course schedule
• Tomomi Yamaguchi – “Social Movements in Japan” Montana State University (PDF) (Fall 2012)

Bibliography

• Professor Adrienne Hurley from McGill University compiled this bibliography for teachers while at the University of Iowa (Google Document)
• Bibliography – Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the University of Montana

Online Glossaries

• Atomic Age Glossary (PDF) Basic Japanese-English Glossary compiled by Aiko Kojima
• 脱原発のための和英小辞典(A Japanese-English Glossary for Denuclearization, html; from The Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center; somewhat more advanced than “Atomic Age Glossary,” above)
• 放射線影響研究所　用語集(RERF Glossary, html; Japanese)
• Radiation Effects Research Foundation Glossary(RERF; html; English)
• Radiation Terminology, USNRC(Google Document)
  • Page 6 states that “The biological effects of radiation exposure are discussed in Chapter 6” – Click here to read Chapter 6 (also other sections are searchable online: try “USNRC Reactor Concepts Manual”)

Online Readings

• “Analysis of WHO report on Fukushima Catastrophe” by Dr. Alex Rosen
• “ProducingAlternative Media: My Work As a Freelance Filmmaker” by Kamanaka Hitomi (PDF)
• Rokkasho, Minamata and Japan’s Future: Capturing Humanity on Film (Kamanaka Hitomi, Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Norma Field) (html)
• Japan earthquake accident at Fukushima 3-11-11 (PDF)
  • Press release by Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) entitled “Japanese nuclear emergency – implications for Illinois, Nuclear Renaissance/Current accidents conditions worsening; residents around stricken reactor evacuated”
• “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and self-censorship”
• “Voice of Hibakusha” eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima
• Bikini Atoll
• Islanders Want The Truth About Bikini Nuclear Test
• The History of the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ Bilateral Relationship with the United States
• Report of the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island
• Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience (Report of the Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ‘Environment’)
• Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environmentby Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko.
• “The Earthquake in Japanese Energy Policy”
• “From the Bulletin archives: Selected readings on Chernobyl” on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• A Request for Help from Mayors for Peace (PDF) by Steven Leeper Chairperson, Hiroshima Peace Culture Institute
• Campaign Update (PDF) by Steven Leeper Chairperson, Hiroshima Peace Culture Institute
• Let Us At Least Return to Autumn 1945 (PDF) by Norma Field, the University of Chicago
• Slides: “International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale” (INES) – 12 April 2011.
• “Disaster and the Rhetoric of Sacrifice” by Yuki Miyamoto
• Nucler Safety Research Group: Resources on Fukushima, Three Mile, and Chernobyl
• The Committee For Nuclear Responsibility
• Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D.
• Readings for Fukushima Inspection Tour via Citizen-Scientist International Symposium on Radiation Protection
• Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organizaton (WHO) (1959)
• Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons

Books and Articles

• Hibakusha around the world: The Chugoku Newspaper, Exposure: Victims of Radiation Speak Out (New York: Kodansha America, 1992). with a Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton.
  • Chapters address hibakusha in the U.S. (Hanford, Three Mile Island, uranium mining on a Navajo Reservation, etc.), the Soviet Union, the South Pacific and Australia, India, Malaysia, Korea, Britain, France, Brazil, and Namibia.
• Hibakusha around the world: Barbara Rose Johnston, ed., Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (Santa Fe, New Mexico: A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book, 2007).
  • Addresses the U.S., Russia, Marshall Islands, Navajo mining, and the Iñupiat of northern Alaska. Takes the position that, “Contrary to the claims of American and Soviet officials, the arms race did not prevent nuclear war; rather, it was a nuclear war.”
• Health Effects: Jay M. Gould, The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors〜Breast Cancer, AIDS, Low Birthweights, and Other Radiation-Induced Immune Deficiency Effects (New York: Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1996).
  • The author had a long career as an economic and statistical consultant; only after retirement did he dedicate himself to “exploring the health effects of environmental abuses, including low-level radiation.” In his last chapter, titled “Is It Too Late?” he expresses his belief that “solving the problems of low-level radiation can ultimately lead to a rational reordering of a pollution-free global economy … The process may begin at any moment, in the aftermath of the next inevitable nuclear accident of the magnitude of Chernobyl, which I don’t believe any current political system will be able to survive. My belief rests on the recognition that Chernobyl was the watershed event that will evetaly be seen as the necessary counterpart to Hiroshima in changing the course of history.”
• A. Yablakov, V. Nesterenko, A. Nesterenko, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences & Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 2010).
  • Unlike the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization, the authors have taken into account the vast body of scientific literature addressing this issue in Slavic languages. Now available in pdf format in “Online Readings,” above.