Jon Mitchell

Poisoning the Pacific

The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Thousands of service members, their families, and local residents have been exposedà â â but the US has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. This book reveals the enormous extent of contamination and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

Produktdetails

• Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9781538130339
• ISBN-10: 1538130335
• Artikelnr.: 58016177

Autorenporträt

By Jon Mitchell - Foreword by John W. Dower

Inhaltsangabe

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