.... Ethnographically, my analysis pivots around an interaction between a radiobiologist and a veteran who participated in British nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s, developments within experimental science that are reconfiguring the biological role of the gene in newly relational ways, and the subsequent...

... Bikini plane crash rescue nuclear testing moral dilemma ...

... ecological trauma climate change climate art nuclear testing ...

... several sites: intergovernmental climate change initiatives in the Pacific; environmental remote-sensing regimes; artistic works that engage with the scale of climate crisis; and the glassblowing work of Indigenous artist Yhonnie Scarce, which responds to nuclear weapons testing in Australia...

... This chapter begins with the author’s reflections on the morning after his rescue from a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean. It tells the story of a trip to the South Pacific to meet with Micronesians who had been displaced from the Bikini Atoll because of nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s...

... As the warming climate threatens to put billions of people of the road, it should be remembered that Pacific peoples have already experienced forced displacement and permanent exile as their islands became nuclear testing sites. Marshallese, i-Kiribati, and Ma'ohi people can all testify to what...

..., and culpability, and to show responsibility’s complex relationship with practices of irresponsibilization. Ethnographically, my analysis pivots around an interaction between a radiobiologist and a veteran who participated in British nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s, developments within experimental...