
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
