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The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War : The Rongelap Report
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, Barbara Rose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Health aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.
- Radiation victims--Legal status, laws, etc--Marshall Islands.
- Radiation victims--Legal status, laws, etc. -- Marshall Islands.
- Radioactive pollution--Marshall Islands.
- Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands)--Claims vs. United States.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--Environmental aspects--Testing--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.
- Radiation victims.
- Radioactive pollution.
- Local Subjects:
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Health aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.
- Radiation victims--Legal status, laws, etc--Marshall Islands.
- Radiation victims--Legal status, laws, etc. -- Marshall Islands.
- Radioactive pollution--Marshall Islands.
- Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands)--Claims vs. United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a 1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethic
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War; Part 1: Introduction; Photo Essay; Part 2: Loss of a Healthy, Sustainable Way of Life; Part 3: Chain of Events and Critical Issues of Concern; Part 4: Summary of Damages, Needs, and Compensation Concerns; Part 5: Conclusions and Recommendations; Epilogue: Seeking Meaningful Remedy; Appendix; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-43179-3
- OCLC:
- 711747353
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