Jon Mitchell: Poisoning the Pacific

Cover: 9781538189290 | Poisoning the Pacific | Jon Mitchell | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024

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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.

Über den Autor

Jon Mitchell is an investigative journalist with the Okinawa Times and winner of the 2015 Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's lifetime achievement award for press freedom. His work has featured in reports for the US Congress and Japanese parliament; it has also helped US veterans exposed to contamination in Japan to win compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. US authorities-including the State Department and Department of Defense-have repeatedly attempted to block Mitchell's work, prompting condemnation from international press freedom groups. He lives in Japan.

John W. Dower is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781538189290
ISBN-10:	1538189291
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mitchell, Jon
Hersteller:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jon Mitchell
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.04.2024
Gewicht:	0,46 kg