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Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Historian who comments on science, technology, and environmental issues. Author of The Wretched Atom, Arming Mother Nature, Poison in the Well, and Oceanographers and the Cold War
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Essays

“Aligning Missions” essay published in History and Technology

By Jacob Darwin HamblinFebruary 2, 2021February 3, 2021
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News and Events

Downwinders Workshop: Making the Unseen Visible

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 8, 2020February 2, 2021
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Essays

“An American Miracle in the Desert,” chapter published

By Jacob Darwin HamblinDecember 2, 2019February 2, 2021
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News and Events

Ways of Knowing and Radiation Exposure

By Jacob Darwin HamblinDecember 7, 2018February 2, 2021
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Detail from The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Domenico Tiepolo (1773)
Essays

“Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era” essay published in Environmental History

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 27, 2017February 2, 2021
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News and Events

Downwinders and Dose Reconstruction

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 3, 2017December 7, 2018
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News and Events

Speaking at Princeton University on Environmental Transformation and Nuclear Reactors

By Jacob Darwin HamblinApril 25, 2017February 2, 2021
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News and Events

Hamblin Wins the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 6, 2016February 2, 2021
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Reviews

Love Canal Across the Centuries

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 3, 2016August 31, 2016
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Reviews

Sustainable Development: the Painful Birth of an Idea

By Jacob Darwin HamblinSeptember 19, 2016August 31, 2016
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Reviews

Scientists who Collaborate with the Military

By Jacob Darwin HamblinSeptember 5, 2016August 31, 2016
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Reviews

Hidden Consequences of Banning DDT

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 29, 2016August 31, 2016
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Commentary

Remembering Ron Rainger, 1949-2016

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJuly 17, 2016October 27, 2017
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My community

Getting Lost in the Woods

By Jacob Darwin HamblinMarch 13, 2016February 2, 2021
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H-Environment Roundtables

Does Our Obsession with Future Energy Demand Blind Us to History?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 25, 2015August 26, 2016
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Essays

Do we need to change how we recount the Lucky Dragon incident?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 5, 2015February 2, 2021
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Essays

Ronald Reagan’s Environmental Legacy

By Jacob Darwin HamblinSeptember 30, 2015February 2, 2021
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Essays

The Atom does not wait for favors from nature!

By Jacob Darwin HamblinSeptember 16, 2015February 2, 2021
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H-Environment Roundtables

Unexpected Links between Edward Abbey and Barry Goldwater

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 28, 2015August 28, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Are Cars the Ultimate Myth of Individual Choice?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJuly 28, 2015August 23, 2015
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News and Events

OMSI’s Reel Science: Planetary with Jacob Darwin Hamblin

By Jacob Darwin HamblinApril 8, 2015August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Is Maximum Sustainable Yield a Tool of Science or of Diplomacy?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinFebruary 25, 2015August 23, 2015
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Reviews

Environmental Battles on the Missile Range

By Jacob Darwin HamblinFebruary 19, 2015August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Were National Parks Actually Mexico’s Best Idea?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJanuary 31, 2015August 23, 2015
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News and Events

Arming Mother Nature wins Birdsall Prize

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJanuary 1, 2015February 2, 2021
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Essays

Seeing the Oceans According to Our Values

By Jacob Darwin HamblinDecember 8, 2014February 2, 2021
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Commentary

The IAEA demands nations open up to its inspectors, yet is itself a tightly shut box of secrets

By Jacob Darwin HamblinDecember 8, 2014February 2, 2021
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H-Environment Roundtables

The Wetlands Shall Rise Again!

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 20, 2014August 23, 2015
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Reviews

Plutonium Towns in the Cold War

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 12, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Grassroots Activism in the ‘Burbs

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 16, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

War Against Nature, the Backbone of the South

By Jacob Darwin HamblinSeptember 27, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Roundtable on Arming Mother Nature

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 24, 2014September 16, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Endangered Species and Contested Lands

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJune 13, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Elusive Evidence of the Ocean’s Past

By Jacob Darwin HamblinMay 18, 2014August 23, 2015
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My community

My First Ultra—The Slippery Slope

By Jacob Darwin HamblinMay 13, 2014February 2, 2021
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Commentary

Does Crisis in Ukraine Shatter the Nuclear Order?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinMarch 18, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Hydro Power and the Public Good

By Jacob Darwin HamblinMarch 8, 2014August 23, 2015
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Reviews

A Dr. Strangelove for All Seasons

By Jacob Darwin HamblinFebruary 4, 2014August 23, 2015
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Reviews

Agent Orange and the Burden of Proof

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJanuary 13, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Where is Nature in the Iconic Moments of American History?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJanuary 7, 2014August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Can environmental scholars rethink Middle East history?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 23, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

Don’t Ever Whisper: The Marshall Islands Story

By Jacob Darwin HamblinNovember 14, 2013October 2, 2015
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Commentary

Mark Finlay, 1960-2013

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 14, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

A Nobel Prize for Higgs and Englert: Another Blow Against “Real” Science?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinOctober 9, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

Putting the Earth on a Ration Card

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 22, 2013August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

Who are the Voices of the Mountains?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 20, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

Environmental Legacy of the Limited Test Ban Treaty

By Jacob Darwin HamblinAugust 13, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

The strange military origins of environmentalism

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJuly 18, 2013August 23, 2015
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H-Environment Roundtables

When Race and Environment Collide

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJuly 11, 2013August 23, 2015
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Commentary

Who Would Do Such a Thing?

By Jacob Darwin HamblinJuly 9, 2013August 23, 2015
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