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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, 1926- author.
- Fukurai, Hiroshi, 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 power plants--Japan--Design and construction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war 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 the futile ground for the future nuclear disaster. The 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.S.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for "safe" nuclear-power and the current "safe-nuclear particles" myths. The study shows how the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on the population in post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the future.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-9571-9
- 0-7391-9570-0
- OCLC:
- 903489409
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