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Book Summary
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had
enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose
Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and
financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the
community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and
ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique
collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the
Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy,
human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced
here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the
effects of nuclear
ISBN-13
9781598743463
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Left Coast Press
Publishing Date
2008-04-01
Total Pages
312
The Consequential Damages Of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had
enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose
Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and
financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the
community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and
ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique
collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the
Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy,
human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced
here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the
effects of nuclear