This is an archives space for the collaborative research project: Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age. The Nuclear Futures archives historical documents and events related to  a multi-year, interdisciplinary, collaborative research and teaching project that addresses the urgent question of nuclear futures in an era characterized by environmental degradation, economic and social precarity, and an emergent “Cold War.”

Grounded in the participants’ disciplinary training in Japanese and German studies, the project attends to the diverging and converging perspectives of two national cultures with long traditions of nuclear abolition movements, shaped by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the legacies of World War II and the first Cold War, and the devastation wrought by nuclear accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Elaborating the literary, cinematic, and aesthetic production around nuclear disaster, specific contours of local and transnational activism, and innovative policy advocacy in Japan and Germany, the project facilitates generative dialogue on and new understandings of the stakes of nuclear debates.