Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

Johnston, Barbara Rose; Barker, Holly M.

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“…The multiple logics and methods that contribute to dissimulation and invisibilisation have been articulated by historians. Censorship and press codes restricted early discussions of the bomb (Braw, 1991;, but for decades, scholars have interviewed the inhabitants of Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands (Johnston and Barker, 2008;Takemine, 2015), veterans of atomic tests, African uranium miners , and nuclear plant workers (Jobin, 2017) to backfill crucial data. Practices of disqualification and denial have, in turn, been maintained through psychological and physical violence, as illustrated in communities around Chernobyl .…”

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“…That was a nightmare for the DoE, the heir to the AEC. Plaintiffs living near nuclear production sites and the Nevada and Pacific proving grounds were suing USgovernment indemnified contractors for millions of dollars (Ball, 1986;Johnston and Barker, 2008;Leopold, 2009;Fox, 2014;Pritikin, 2020). To head off a free-for-all of open-ended questions on the impact of the Chernobyl accident, American officials focused on damage control.…”

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“…Rongelap women exposed in the Bravo test had twice the number of stillbirths and miscarriages as unexposed women (Smith-Norris, 2016: 89-93). At the time, Marshall Islanders and downwinders of nuclear tests in Nevada were pursuing their case in US courts (Johnston and Barker, 2008), though, over decades, US officials held fast that medical examinations of the Marshall Islanders had shown "no aftermaths of fallout" and that the Islanders' "general health is satisfactory" . Closer to home, scientific administrators at the NCI and the US Public Health Service were sitting on studies indicating that, directly downwind from the NTS, children had three to seven times more cases of leukemia and thyroid cancers than other American children.…”

Section: The Chernobyl Threatmentioning

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Living in a Nuclear World

Bensaude‐Vincent¹,

Boudia²,

Satō³

2022

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List of figures viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: shaping the nuclear order 1 BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT, SORAYA BOUDIA AND KYOKO SATO SECTION I Violence and order 21 1 What the bomb has done: victim relief, knowledge and politics 23 KYOKO SATO 2 Optics of exposure 45 JOSEPH MASCO 3 Constructing world order: mobilising tropes of gender, pathology and race to frame US nonproliferation policy 66 JOHN KRIGE 4 The Nuclear Charter: international law, military technology, and the making of strategic trusteeship, 1942-1947 85 M. X. MITCHELL SECTION II Pacifying through control and containment 5 Sharing the "safe" atom?: the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear regulation through standardisation ANGELA N. H. CREAGER AND MARIA RENTETZI 6 From military surveillance to citizen counterexpertise: radioactivity monitoring in a nuclear world NESTOR HERRAN 7 Making the accident hypothetical: how can one deal with the potential nuclear disaster? MAËL GOUMRI 8 Governing the nuclear waste problem: nature and technology TANIA NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ SECTION III Normalising through denial and trivialisation 9 Trivialising life in long-term contaminated areas: the nuclear political laboratory SORAYA BOUDIA 10 Continuing nuclear tests and ending fish inspections: politics, science and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954 HIROKO TAKAHASHI 11 The dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl survivors and neoliberalism's lasting judgments KATE BROWN 12 Unfolding time at Fukushima HARRY BERNAS vi Contents SECTION IV Timescaping through memory and future visions 13 Framing a nuclear order of time BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT 14 Nuclear dreams and capitalist visions: the peaceful atom in Hiroshima RAN ZWIGENBERG 15 Slow disaster and the challenge of nuclear memory

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Living in a Nuclear World

Bensaude‐Vincent¹,

Boudia²,

Satō³

2022

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“…Through active coercion, US officials convinced the communities on Bikini and Enewetak to give up their island homes (though they claimed this was temporary) in order to serve the "good of mankind to end all wars" (Teaiwa, 1996: 89). While testing a series of bombs, under water and in the atmosphere, the military did not take precautions to protect or move the islanders and soldiers from the range of nuclear fallout and even used the event to gather data on the effects of radiation on human populations (Johnston and Barker, 2008;Barker, 2013) Jetnīl-Kijiner's specific reference to bulldozers brings these histories into the present stakes of discussions about massive land reclamation and engineering projects underway to protect the islands from inundation. 6 RMI already faces compromised fresh water supplies for drinking and agriculture (Fletcher, 2016).…”

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Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another

Faris¹

2019

Shima

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The video poem Rise: From One Island to Another, a 2018 collaboration between Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnīl-Kijiner and Inuk poet Aka Niviâna from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) raises key questions about the antimonies of climate mitigation and adaptation discourses across oceans and islands. As "sisters of ocean and ice," the poets reference the climate relationships between ice melt in Greenland and sea inundation of the Marshall Islands as part of the extended, but differentiated, island colonial histories of occupation, militarism, and development. Having been brought together by environmental activist organisation 350.org, Jetnīl-Kijiner and Niviâna also strategically use their positionalities as Indigenous islanders to critique not only the continuity between colonial and neo-liberal operations but also the continuity between colonial and environmental scopic regimes, that taken together, stymie climate change imaginaries. In response to these discourses, they claim a feminist hydro-ontological imaginary. Ultimately, the video poem allows an examination of the value of materialist hydro-feminisms and "feminism without borders" (Mohanty, 2003) to extend Island Studies frameworks of the aquapelagic-the assemblage of human interactivity with sea, land, and sky.

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“…As such, Kalama is no exception. Many islands and atolls of Oceania have been claimed for toxic weapons testing and/or extraction that has colonized, displaced, and sickened Indigenous populations (see for example Johnston and Barker, 2008; Kuper, 2019; Teaiwa, 2014). As Maclellan (2019) has documented, these imperial endeavors depend(ed) on racist ideas of Indigenous populations as sub-human.…”

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Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll

Plessis

Grimm²,

Kajihiro

et al. 2022

Environ Plan D

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Joined to the Hawaiian Islands by ocean currents and winds, Kalama Atoll (named Johnston by the United States) emerges from the sea 825 miles southwest of Honolulu. Over a period of 165 years, in furtherance of the U.S. imperial project, Kalama has been rendered both conservation frontier and island laboratory for an extraordinary amount of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. This article examines U.S. imperial governance at Kalama, an unincorporated U.S. territory, and how military ruination of Kalama has produced new military natures that call for observation and protection. Introducing a rubric of “conservation by ruination,” we highlight how a coalescing of toxic destruction and conservation efforts functions as a continuous geopolitical claim to the atoll, and how imperial formations at the atoll are weaved through technoscientific and multispecies assemblages. In essence, what is conserved in conservation by ruination is not wildlife, habitats, or nature, but empire itself. Kalama is a post-apocalyptic cyborg assemblage of bleached coral skeletons and radioactive debris, dioxin-laden leachate and crazy ants; a cacophonous ecology of weathered concrete and rusted metal, inhabited by seabirds and steadily dissolving into the sea. But it is also an atoll that remains connected to the islands and peoples of Oceania, and which is neither lost, small, isolated, or ruined. We therefore end the article by speculating on restoration of this atoll whose imperial formations capture not only its spaces, but also its futures.

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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

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Living in a Nuclear World

Living in a Nuclear World

Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another

Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll

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