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 based in Japan and recipient of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award. An expert in the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), his scoops often top the front pages and TV news in Japan - and they have featured in reports for the US Congress. Author of four acclaimed Japanese books about Okinawa, in 2021, Mitchell's first English book, Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, was a winner in the Society of Environmental Journalists' annual awards. In 2023, he received Japan's most prestigious journalism prize, the Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Journalism Award for public service.

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