Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report - Hardcover

Johnston, Barbara Rose; Barker, Holly M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598743457 ISBN 13: 9781598743456

Publisher: Left Coast Press, 2008

Synopsis

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, government secrecy, human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related subjects.

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Barbara Rose Johnston, Holly M. Barker

From the Back Cover

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of col-war nuclear tests that blanketed the nation with fallout. Johnston and Barker reveal the horrific history of human rights violations endured by the Marshallese, as well as their long struggle for reparations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Left Coast Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598743457
• ISBN 13: 9781598743456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312