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- ↑ "OSU Downwinders Project". Environmental Arts and Sciences Initiative, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University. 7 November 2017.
- ↑ "OSU History Professor Jacob Hamblin Wins Oregon Book Award for 'The Wretched Atom'". News, Oregon State University. April 28, 2022.
- ↑ Turchetti, Simone (2009). "Review of Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Jacob Darwin Hamblin". The British Journal for the History of Science. 42: 149–150. doi:10.1017/S000708740900212X. S2CID 145438832.
- ↑ Lowen, R. S. (2006). "Review of Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science by Jacob Darwin Hamblin". The American Historical Review. 111 (5): 1546–1547. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.5.1546.
