Consequential damages of nuclear war; the Rongelap report.

9781598743456

Consequential damages of nuclear war; the Rongelap report.

Johnston, Barbara Rose.

Left Coast Press

2008

296 pages

$75.00

Hardcover

KZ238

This volume reprints The Rongelap Report, an expert witness report submitted to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal as key evidence for the Tribunal's 2001 hearing on hardship, pain, suffering, and consequential damages experienced by the people of Rongelap, Rongerik, and Ailinginae atolls from the US nuclear weapons testing program. The report presents evidence supporting recompensation claims for: social, cultural, economic, and political hardships and injuries as result of the loss of the material basis for sustaining health and self-sufficiency due to involuntary relocation and extensive contamination of terrestrial and marine resources; psychosocial stigmatization, pain, and suffering as a result of acute and long-term exposures to nuclear fallout; and pain and suffering as a result of the involvement of the people of Rongelap in long-term studies on the effects of radiation and their use as human subjects in a range of US government experiments disconnected from individual health and treatment needs.

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