Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report

by Johnston,Barbara Rose

• ISBN13: 9781598743463
• ISBN10: 1598743465
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of col-war nuclear tests that blanketed the nation with fallout. Johnston and Barker reveal the horrific history of human rights violations endured by the Marshallese

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 9
Prologue: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War	p. 11
Introduction	p. 43
Summary of Relevant Findings	p. 44
Research Concerns	p. 48
Research Methods	p. 50
Report Framework	p. 54
Photo Essay	p. 56
Loss of a Healthy, Sustainable Way of Life	p. 57
Valuing Land from a Marshallese Perspective	p. 57
Land and Sea Tenure	p. 59
Rules Governing Access and Use Rights	p. 61
Cultural Land and Seascapes	p. 68
Spiritual Values of Land and Seascape	p. 71
Environmental Knowledge and Sustainable Resource Use	p. 74
Flexible Patterns of Resource Use-Sustainable Living on Atoll Ecosystems	p. 82
Taboos and Resource Management	p. 85
Concluding Discussion	p. 86
Chain of Events and Critical Issues of Concern	p. 89
Evacuation from Rongelap to Lae in 1946	p. 89
Damage and Continued Loss of Access to Rongerik	p. 92
The Bravo Event	p. 95
Relocation from Rongelap to Kwajalein in 1954	p. 100
Project 4.1 Research on Kwajalein	p. 103
Relocation from Kwajalein to Ejit	p. 107
Long-Term Human Subject Research Plans, Priorities, and Policies	p. 109
Difficulties of Life in a Contaminated Setting	p. 117
Degenerative Health and Health Care Issues on Rongelap	p. 133
Human Subject Research Experiences	p. 152
Evacuation of Rongelap in 1985	p. 159
Current Conditions Endured by a Fragmented Rongelap Community	p. 161
Summary of Damages, Needs, and Compensation Concerns	p. 173
Claims by the People of Rongelap for Hardship and Related Consequential Damages of the Nuclear Weapons Testing Program	p. 173
Consequences of These Events and Injuries	p. 176
Household Economic Injuries	p. 179
Compensation Concerns	p. 184
Research Needs	p. 189
Ideas for Remedial Action	p. 191
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 195
Violations of Trustee Relationships	p. 195
Statements of Culpability	p. 197
Reparations	p. 199
Relevant Case Precedents	p. 201
Recommendations for Categories of Concern in This Claim	p. 212
Concluding Remarks	p. 222
Epilogue: Seeking Meaningful Remedy	p. 225
Appendix	p. 249
Sample Marshallese text from the memoir of John Anjain	p. 251
List of documents submitted to the Nuclear Claims Tribunal in support of the Rongelap claim	p. 252
Letter from the Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine to Lewis Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, November 19, 1956	p. 256
Memorandum from Gordon M. Dunning to C. L. Dunham, June 13, 1957. Subject: Resurvey of Rongelap Atoll	p. 258
Letter from Hermann Lisco, MD, Cancer Research Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, to George Darling, Director, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, April 29, 1966	p. 259
Letter from Paul Seligman, U.S. Department of Energy, to Mayor James Matayoshi, Rongelap Atoll Local Government Council, April 29, 1999	p. 260
Glossary	p. 263
Index	p. 287
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