Nuclear Tsunami (eBook)

The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster

Morris Edelson, Hiroshi Fukurai, Richard Krooth (Autoren)

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2015
186 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9570-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book shows how the bankruptcy of the central state of Japan has led to increased burdens on the population in the post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the future.

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This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths, Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a significant decline of local industries and economies. The Fukushima nuclear disaster substantiated that U.S. propaganda programs left a long lasting legacy in Japan and beyond and created the futile ground for the future nuclear disaster. The book reveals Japans tripartite organization of the dominating state, media-monopoly, and nuclear-plant oligarchy advancing nuclear proliferation. It details America's unprecedented pro-nuclear propaganda campaigns; Japan's secret ambitions to develop its own nuclear bombs; U.S. dumping of reprocessed plutonium on Japan; and the joint U.S.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for safe nuclear-power and the current ';safe-nuclear particles' myths. The study shows how the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on the population in post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the future.

Autor

Richard Krooth is visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Morris Edelson is writer, editor and publisher in Houston, Texas.Hiroshi Fukurai is professor of sociology and legal studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsPart I: Roots—U.S. Psychological Warfare Strategies & Propaganda Campaigns In Japan Chapter 1: Most Nuclear-Feared Populations to the Atomic EnthusiastPart II: Nuclear FalloutChapter 2: Trial by Sea, Trial by FireChapter 3: Invisible BulletsChapter 4: Ignoring Risks to Species LifeChapter 5: Mission Impossible: All About Nuclear ReactorsChapter 6: Hubris and the Meta-WorldPart III: In The MaelstromChapter 7: Fail-Safe Fails AgainChapter 8: Radiation Without EndChapter 9: Nature as Nuclear Trash BinChapter 10: Can Anyone Ever Pay?Chapter 11: Returning—on Shaken FeetChapter 12: Popular Rights versus Corporate PowerChapter 13: Who is in Charge Here?Chapter 14: Making a Nation Safe for ProfitsChapter 15: Futures Unknown

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Energy • foreign policy • History • Japanese Studies • nuclear energy
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9570-0 / 0739195700
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9570-3 / 9780739195703