90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey, published by Potomac Books this month, is this author’s biography of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow—a passionate Japanese individual whose lifelong endeavors helped safeguard mankind. Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University, where she engaged in cancer research, patient care, and teaching. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books: Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. Jacobs has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ragdale Foundation, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Charlotte Jacobs was interviewed by Jenny Skoog, a BIO member and podcast producer.