Abstract
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report, by Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M. Barker. Left Coast Press, 2008. 296 pages, $29.95.
Notes
1. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, transcript of the 54th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Biology and Radiation, January 13–14, 1956, New York, pp. 231–32, as quoted in International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The Health and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Testing in, on, and above the Earth (New York: Apex Press, 1991), p. 82.
2. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1995).
3. As quoted in IPPNW and IEER, Radioactive Heaven and Earth, p. 82.
4. See the Rongelap Atoll Local Government website, <www.visitrongelap.com>.
5. For an extensive, global analysis see Arjun Makhijani, Howard Hu, and Katherine Yih, eds., Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).
6. Editorial, California Engineer, April 1960, as quoted in Makhijani, Hu, and Yih, Nuclear Wastelands, p. 8.
7. See Stephen I. Schwartz, ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), pp. 22–27.
8. Charter of the United Nations, articles 75 and 76 (June 26, 1945), as quoted by Johnston and Barker 2008, p. 195.