[PDF] The United States Nuclear Legacy In The Marshall Islands eBook

Author : United States House of Representatives
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2020-01-15
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ISBN : 9781659475807

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The United States nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands: consideration of issues relating to the changed circumstances petition: oversight hearing before the Committee on Resources, joint with the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, May 25, 2005.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
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ISBN : 9781985205130

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The United States nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands : consideration of issues relating to the changed circumstances petition : oversight hearing before the Committee on Resources, joint with the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, May 25, 2005.

Author : Keith M. Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107047323

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A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1598743465

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The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of cold-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.

Author : Martha Smith-Norris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824847628

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Domination and Resistance illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decision makers in Washington, the Marshall Islands represented a strategic prize seized from Japan near the end of World War II. In the postwar period, under the auspices of a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, the United States reinforced its control of the Marshall Islands and kept the Soviet Union and other Cold War rivals out of this Pacific region. The United States also used the opportunity to test a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshalls, even as it conducted research on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout. Although these military tests and human experiments reinforced the US strategy of deterrence, they also led to the displacement of several atoll communities, serious health implications for the Marshallese, and widespread ecological degradation. Confronted with these troubling conditions, the Marshall Islanders utilized a variety of political and legal tactics—petitions, lawsuits, demonstrations, and negotiations—to draw American and global attention to their plight. In response to these indigenous acts of resistance, the United States strengthened its strategic interests in the Marshalls but made some concessions to the islanders. Under the Compact of Free Association (COFA) and related agreements, the Americans tightened control over the Kwajalein Missile Range while granting the Marshallese greater political autonomy, additional financial assistance, and a mechanism to settle nuclear claims. Martha Smith-Norris argues that despite COFA's implementation in 1986 and Washington's pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region in the post–Cold War era, the United States has yet to provide adequate compensation to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for the extensive health and environmental damages caused by the US testing programs.

Author : Walter Pincus
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1635768020

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the sixty-seven US nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands—an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here—with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll—that America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. And it was here that a native people became unwilling test subjects in the first large scale study of nuclear radiation fallout when the ashes rained down on powerless villagers, contaminating the land they loved and forever changing a way of life. In Blown to Hell, Pulitzer Prize–winnng journalist Walter Pincus tells for the first time the tragic story of the Marshallese people caught in the crosshairs of American nuclear testing. From John Anjain, a local magistrate of Rongelap Atoll who loses more than most; to the radiation-exposed crew of the Japanese fishing boat the Lucky Dragon; to Dr. Robert Conard, a Navy physician who realized the dangers facing the islanders and attempted to help them; to the Washington power brokers trying to keep the unthinkable fallout from public view . . . Blown to Hell tells the human story of America’s nuclear testing program. Displaced from the only homes they had known, the native tribes that inhabited the serene Pacific atolls for millennia before they became ground zero for America’s first thermonuclear detonations returned to homes despoiled by radiation—if they were lucky enough to return at all. Others were ripped from their ancestral lands and shuttled to new islands with little regard for how the new environment supported their way of life and little acknowledgement of all they left behind. But not even the disruptive relocations allowed the islanders to escape the fallout. Praise for Blown to Hell “A shocking account of the destruction wrought by atomic bomb testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958 . . . . Pincus makes a persuasive case that in “seeking a more powerful weapon for warfare, the U.S. unleashed death in several forms on peaceful Marshall Island people.” Readers will be appalled.” —Publishers Weekly “For more than half a century, Walter Pincus has been among our greatest reporters and most persistent truth-tellers. Blown to Hell is a story worthy of his talents—infuriating, heart-breaking, and utterly riveting.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Liberation Trilogy