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
Downwinders Workshop: Making the Unseen Visible
“An American Miracle in the Desert,” chapter published
Ways of Knowing and Radiation Exposure
“Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era” essay published in Environmental History
Downwinders and Dose Reconstruction
Speaking at Princeton University on Environmental Transformation and Nuclear Reactors
Hamblin Wins the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society
Love Canal Across the Centuries
Sustainable Development: the Painful Birth of an Idea
Scientists who Collaborate with the Military
Hidden Consequences of Banning DDT
Remembering Ron Rainger, 1949-2016
Getting Lost in the Woods
Does Our Obsession with Future Energy Demand Blind Us to History?
Do we need to change how we recount the Lucky Dragon incident?
Ronald Reagan’s Environmental Legacy
The Atom does not wait for favors from nature!
Unexpected Links between Edward Abbey and Barry Goldwater
Are Cars the Ultimate Myth of Individual Choice?
OMSI’s Reel Science: Planetary with Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Is Maximum Sustainable Yield a Tool of Science or of Diplomacy?
Environmental Battles on the Missile Range
Were National Parks Actually Mexico’s Best Idea?
Arming Mother Nature wins Birdsall Prize
Seeing the Oceans According to Our Values
The IAEA demands nations open up to its inspectors, yet is itself a tightly shut box of secrets
The Wetlands Shall Rise Again!
Plutonium Towns in the Cold War
Grassroots Activism in the ‘Burbs
War Against Nature, the Backbone of the South
Roundtable on Arming Mother Nature
Endangered Species and Contested Lands
Elusive Evidence of the Ocean’s Past
My First Ultra—The Slippery Slope
Does Crisis in Ukraine Shatter the Nuclear Order?
Hydro Power and the Public Good
A Dr. Strangelove for All Seasons
Agent Orange and the Burden of Proof
Where is Nature in the Iconic Moments of American History?
Can environmental scholars rethink Middle East history?
Don’t Ever Whisper: The Marshall Islands Story
Mark Finlay, 1960-2013
A Nobel Prize for Higgs and Englert: Another Blow Against “Real” Science?
Putting the Earth on a Ration Card
Who are the Voices of the Mountains?
Environmental Legacy of the Limited Test Ban Treaty
The strange military origins of environmentalism
When Race and Environment Collide
