Consequential damages of nuclear war : the Rongelap report / Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M. Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Barbara Rose.

Contributor:

Barker, Holly M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Testing--Health aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll.

Radiation victims--Legal status, laws, etc--Marshall Islands.

Radiation victims.

Radioactive pollution--Marshall Islands.

Radioactive pollution.

Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands)--Claims vs. United States.

Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2008.

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 bioethics, gov

Contents:

Introduction

Loss of a healthy, sustainable way of life

Chain of events and critical issues of concern

Summary of damages, needs, and compensation concerns

Conclusions and recommendations

Epilogue : Seeking meaningful remedy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-43181-5

1-59874-741-X

9781315431819

OCLC:

711747353