Nuclear tsunami : the Japanese government and America's role in the Fukushima disaster / Richard Krooth, Morris Edelson, and Hiroshi Fukurai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krooth, Richard, author.

Edelson, Morris, author.

Fukurai, Hiroshi, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Nuclear energy--Government policy--Japan.

Nuclear energy.

Nuclear power plants--Japan--Safety measures.

Nuclear power plants.

Nuclear energy--Government policy.

Japan.

Industrial safety.

Nuclear power plants--Japan--Design and construction.

Nuclear power plants--Design and construction.

Nuclear power plants--Safety measures.

Physical Description:

xx, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

Nuclear Tsunami: The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster begins with the analysis of America's postwar intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths, Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a significant decline of local industries and economies. The Fukushima nuclear disaster substantiated that U.S. propaganda programs left a long lasting legacy in Japan and beyond and created fertile ground for a future nuclear disaster. This book reveals Japan's tripartite organization of the dominating state, media-monopoly, and nuclear-plant oligarchy advancing nuclear proliferation. It details America's unprecedented pro-nuclear propaganda campaigns; Japan's secret ambitions to develop its own nuclear bombs; U.S. dumping of reprocessed plutonium on Japan; and the joint U.5.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for "safe" nuclear power and the current "safe-nuclear particles" myths. This study shows how the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on the population in the post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing dangerous ionization of the population, now reaching into the future. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Roots-U.S. Psychological Warfare Strategies and Propaganda Campaigns in Japan 1

1 Transformation of the Most Nuclear-Fearful Population to an Atomic Enthusiasts: America's Psychological Warfare Strategies 3

II Nuclear Fallout 39

2 Trial by Sea, Trial by Fire 43

3 Ingenious Invisible Invaders 55

4 Damning the Torpedos at Full Throttle 69

5 Facts about Nuclear Reactors Your Mother Never Told You 85

6 Hubris and Megadeath by 3 A.D. (After the Disaster) 95

III In the Maelstrom 101

7 Fail-Safe Not Foolproof 105

8 From Sea to Shining Sea: Radiation without End 111

9 Nature as Nuclear Trash Bin 123

10 Can Anyone Ever Pay? 131

11 Returning-on Shaken Feet 139

12 Popular Rights vs. Corporate Power 145

13 Who's in Charge Here? 149

14 Making a Nation Safer for Profits 157

15 Futures Unknown 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739195697

0739195697

OCLC:

895030498