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Author | : Jon Mitchell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1538130343 |
In this devastating exposé, investigative journalist Jon Mitchell reveals the shocking toxic contamination of the Pacific Ocean and millions of victims by the US military. For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.
Author | : Hugh L. Keegan |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) |
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Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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"Comprising all the decisions of the Supreme Courts of California, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, District Courts of Appeal and Appellate Department of the Superior Court of California and Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma." (varies)
Author | : Thomas E. Anderson |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poison ivy |
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Discusses five basic plants that are poisonous and cause rashes and examines the myths about these plants as well as "cures" and home remedies for the rashes that work, appear to work, or don't work at all.
Author | : Elmer Drew Merrill |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Jacob Darwin Hamblin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2008-01-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813544238 |
In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy.
Author | : David Liscio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
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ISBN | : 9780997424751 |
IN THE JAPANESE UNDERWORLD OF DRUGS, GUNS, AND CRIME... ONE WOMAN HOLDS THE KEY TO TAKING DOWN AN EMPIRE. CIA officer Hannah Summers is dispatched to the South Pacific with one simple objective: discover the source of heroin being trafficked to the United States, and destroy it before another shipment hits the streets of San Francisco. But on the coral island of Saipan, the yakuza - powerful, elaborately-tattooed Japanese gangsters - have no intention of allowing Hannah and her partners to interfere with business.With bodies beginning to pile up on the tiny island and tensions mounting between yakuza and local law enforcement, it could be the perfect opportunity for a plucky, blonde undercover agent to infiltrate Orochi "Big Snake" Tanaka's organization. Or, it could prove a fatal mistake... PACIFIC POISON is an action-packed thriller set on the tropical island of Saipan, inspired in part by the author's coverage of South Pacific drug trafficking during his work as an investigative reporter.
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Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers |
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