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Poisoning the Pacific

Author : Jon Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538130343
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Poisoning the Pacific written by Jon Mitchell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this devastating exposé, investigative journalist Jon Mitchell reveals the shocking toxic contamination of the Pacific Ocean and millions of victims by the US military. For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

Hell in the Pacific

Author : Jim McEnery
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451659148
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Hell in the Pacific written by Jim McEnery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.

Goodbye, Darkness

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316054631
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye, Darkness written by William Manchester and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times. The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer

Toxic Histories

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126975
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Toxic Histories written by David Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

The Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Book

Author : Thomas E. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poison Ivy, Oak & Sumac Book written by Thomas E. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses five basic plants that are poisonous and cause rashes and examines the myths about these plants as well as "cures" and home remedies for the rashes that work, appear to work, or don't work at all.

Rethinking Postwar Okinawa

Author : Pedro Iacobelli
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498533124
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Postwar Okinawa written by Pedro Iacobelli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents the latest multidisciplinary research that delves into developments related to contemporary Okinawa (a.k.a Ryukyu Islands), and also engages with contemporary debates on American hegemony and Empire in a larger geographical context. Okinawa, long viewed as a marginalized territory in larger historical processes, has been characterized solely by the U.S. military presence in the islands, despite having embraced a multiplicity of social and cultural transformations since the end of the Pacific War. In this timely academic revision of Okinawa, occurring at the time of numerous debates over the building of yet another military base in the island, this volume's contributors tell a story that situates Okinawa in the context of other militarized territories and thus, goes beyond the limits of Okinawa prefecture. Indeed, the book examines the ways in which studies on Okinawa have evolved, moving away from the direct problems brought by the establishment of foreign military bases. Previous studies have explicated how Okinawa has fallen prey to power politics of more dominant nations. In expanding on these themes, this volume examines the unique social and cultural dynamics of Okinawa and its people that had never been intended by the political authorities.

A World Otherwise

Author : Yuki Miyamoto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179364361X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A World Otherwise written by Yuki Miyamoto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her book A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata, Yuki Miyamoto examines the struggles of those suffering from Minamata disease, eponymous with the Japanese city in which a Chisso factory released methylmercury into the Shiranui Sea, leading to widespread poisonings. Miyamoto explores Minamata sufferers’ struggles, examining their physical pains as well as the emotional plight of having lost their loved ones, their livelihood, and fellowship in communities, to the illness. Miyamoto’s analysis focuses on the philosophies and actions of a group, Hongan no kai, comprised of Minamata disease sufferers and their supporters in 1994. Relying on the group’s newsletter, “Tamashii utsure” (Transferring the spirit), this monograph explores the ways in which Hongan no kai members have come to terms with their experiences as well as their visions of “a world otherwise” (janaka shaba), where ontology, epistemology, and worldviews are construed differently from those of this modern world.

Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309091942
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poisoning is a far more serious health problem in the U.S. than has generally been recognized. It is estimated that more than 4 million poisoning episodes occur annually, with approximately 300,000 cases leading to hospitalization. The field of poison prevention provides some of the most celebrated examples of successful public health interventions, yet surprisingly the current poison control "system" is little more than a loose network of poison control centers, poorly integrated into the larger spheres of public health. To increase their effectiveness, efforts to reduce poisoning need to be linked to a national agenda for public health promotion and injury prevention. Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System recommends a future poison control system with a strong public health infrastructure, a national system of regional poison control centers, federal funding to support core poison control activities, and a national poison information system to track major poisoning epidemics and possible acts of bioterrorism. This framework provides a complete "system" that could offer the best poison prevention and patient care services to meet the needs of the nation in the 21st century.

The School Poisoning Tragedy in Caledonia, Ohio

Author : Dr. James Van Keuren
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439672008
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The School Poisoning Tragedy in Caledonia, Ohio written by Dr. James Van Keuren and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, the River Valley Local School District built its middle school, its high school and its athletic fields in the former Marion Engineer Depot. During World War II, the depot had used the land for heavy equipment rehab, military artillery practice, materials storage, burial of construction debris and burning of waste materials and fuels. In 1997, a River Valley High School nurse grew concerned about the high rate of leukemia and other cancers in graduates. Then a stunning news report announcing a 122 percent increase in death rates over thirty years in the Marion area sparked an investigation. Was the land to blame? The question of what may have been known about the contaminates on the school grounds sent shock waves through the community that still linger today.

Pacific Ordeal

Author : Kenneth Ainslie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Ordeal written by Kenneth Ainslie and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poison in the Well

Author : Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544238
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Poison in the Well written by Jacob Darwin Hamblin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy.

Pacific Vortex!

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553276328
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Vortex! written by Clive Cussler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dirk Pitt adventure.

Pacific Poison

Author : David Liscio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997424751
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Poison written by David Liscio and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE JAPANESE UNDERWORLD OF DRUGS, GUNS, AND CRIME... ONE WOMAN HOLDS THE KEY TO TAKING DOWN AN EMPIRE. CIA officer Hannah Summers is dispatched to the South Pacific with one simple objective: discover the source of heroin being trafficked to the United States, and destroy it before another shipment hits the streets of San Francisco. But on the coral island of Saipan, the yakuza - powerful, elaborately-tattooed Japanese gangsters - have no intention of allowing Hannah and her partners to interfere with business.With bodies beginning to pile up on the tiny island and tensions mounting between yakuza and local law enforcement, it could be the perfect opportunity for a plucky, blonde undercover agent to infiltrate Orochi "Big Snake" Tanaka's organization. Or, it could prove a fatal mistake... PACIFIC POISON is an action-packed thriller set on the tropical island of Saipan, inspired in part by the author's coverage of South Pacific drug trafficking during his work as an investigative reporter.

Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, Revised Edition

Author : Steve Trudell
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1643261703
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, Revised Edition written by Steve Trudell and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for hikers, foragers, and naturalists, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is a comprehensive field guide to the most conspicuous, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms found in the region. With helpful identification keys and photographs and a clear, color-coded layout, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is ideal for hikers, foragers, and natural history buffs and is the perfect tool for loving where you live. Covers Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia Describes and illustrates 493 species 530 photographs, with additional keys and diagrams Clear color-coded layout

Command Of The Air

Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Minamata

Author : W. Eugene Smith
Publisher : Center for Creative Photography
ISBN 13 : 9780938262053
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Minamata written by W. Eugene Smith and published by Center for Creative Photography. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931-1941

Author : Peter Harmsen
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781636243016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931-1941 written by Peter Harmsen and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first volume in a trilogy that will offer a more complete account of the Pacific War than any previously published. While keeping a focus on the decade leading up to Pearl Harbor, Storm Clouds Over the Pacific goes back centuries to examine the origins of enmity between Japan and China and trace the deep animosities that drove the immensely destructive war in the Asia Pacific, exploring the love-hate relationship between East Asia's two oldest civilizations, conditioned by shifting geopolitical winds." -- Back cover.