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Poisoning the Pacific: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Autor Jon Mitchell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2024
For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the US has long hidden the damage and ignored victims. This explosive book reveals the extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538189290
ISBN-10: 1538189291
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Cuprins

Author¿s Note
Foreword by John W. Dower

Introduction

1 Japanese Weapons of Mass Destruction and the US Cover-up

2 Nuclear Warfare in Japan and the Marshall Islands

3 Okinawa: ¿The Junk Heap of the Pacific¿

4 Military Herbicides, Vietnam, and Okinawa

5 Polluting with Impunity

6 Okinawa: Paradise Lost

Timeline: Environmental Contamination and Accidents on Okinawa (1947¿2019)

7 Japan: Contamination, Nuclear Deals, and the Fukushima Meltdowns

8 Toxic Territories: Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Johnston Atoll

9 Toward Environmental Justice

Appendix: Contaminants

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author