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Book Nuclear Testing Program in the Marshall Islands

Download or read book Nuclear Testing Program in the Marshall Islands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bears, discusses the life of bears and profiles different types of bears provided by case studies examining individual species, along with facts and records on bears. Additionally, this title features a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, labeled photographs, and recommended websites for further exploration.

Book Footprints to a Legacy

Download or read book Footprints to a Legacy written by Robert L. Campbell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sometimes disturbing and frightening memoir of experiences, interviews, and government documents, Robert Campbell seeks to level the playing field for many atomic veterans after he discovered how great a difference could exist between contemporaneous records and later-reconstructed versions of the same nuclear operations. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Robert tried to match real-time data with the footprints (experiences) of veterans who lived it and compare this information, when possible, to later versions postulated by officials who were not present at these operations. Very interesting reading.

Book Compact of Free Association

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 870 pages

Download or read book Compact of Free Association written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Nomad

Download or read book The Last Nomad written by Dave Farrell and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Nomad By: Dave Farrell Random Dave Trivia 6’2”, 205lbs (212 during the winter feast, 208lbs during beer season) Blue eyes, grey hair (might be two-dozen still with original black color) Wife Nicolette of thirty-five years and counting (yes, I married up by a considerable margin) Three sons, two daughters, 8 grandchildren, and one 188lb St. Bernard named Bear Dave was born in Orlando, Florida and traveled halfway around the globe by his twelfth birthday. This gave him a great perspective on what people from different cultures, backgrounds and religions all have in common. His unique upbringing developed his great love for the outdoors, music, and humor. He honed these to become an avid camper, lover of heavy metal music, and a self-proclaimed PhD in the use of sarcasm. His unique abilities to connect with most anyone has helped him carve out a career in manufacturing, where over the last forty-two years he has been a servant leader building teams and driving change with several multi-million-dollar corporations spread across our great country. He has developed and taught dozens of classes and seminars on all aspects of leadership and team development. He has been blessed with great travels and experiences and has developed his own unique style of storytelling and communication to share with you opinions on how we can all derive more from the journey and enjoy the differences amongst us, rather than continue down the path of conflict and divide.

Book The Shock and Vibration Bulletin

Download or read book The Shock and Vibration Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domination and Resistance

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  • Author : Martha Smith-Norris
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2016-01-31
  • ISBN : 082485814X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Domination and Resistance written by Martha Smith-Norris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domination and Resistance illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decision makers in Washington, the Marshall Islands represented a strategic prize seized from Japan near the end of World War II. In the postwar period, under the auspices of a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, the United States reinforced its control of the Marshall Islands and kept the Soviet Union and other Cold War rivals out of this Pacific region. The United States also used the opportunity to test a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshalls, even as it conducted research on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout. Although these military tests and human experiments reinforced the US strategy of deterrence, they also led to the displacement of several atoll communities, serious health implications for the Marshallese, and widespread ecological degradation. Confronted with these troubling conditions, the Marshall Islanders utilized a variety of political and legal tactics—petitions, lawsuits, demonstrations, and negotiations—to draw American and global attention to their plight. In response to these indigenous acts of resistance, the United States strengthened its strategic interests in the Marshalls but made some concessions to the islanders. Under the Compact of Free Association (COFA) and related agreements, the Americans tightened control over the Kwajalein Missile Range while granting the Marshallese greater political autonomy, additional financial assistance, and a mechanism to settle nuclear claims. Martha Smith-Norris argues that despite COFA's implementation in 1986 and Washington's pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region in the post–Cold War era, the United States has yet to provide adequate compensation to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for the extensive health and environmental damages caused by the US testing programs.

Book Our Island Story

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  • Author : H. E. Marshall
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-02-20
  • ISBN : 1625583745
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Our Island Story written by H. E. Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

Book H R  1613  the Atomic Veterans Relief Act of 1985

Download or read book H R 1613 the Atomic Veterans Relief Act of 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, and Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1981

Download or read book Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radiation Victims Fair Treatment Act

Download or read book Radiation Victims Fair Treatment Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possessing Polynesians

Download or read book Possessing Polynesians written by Maile Renee Arvin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.

Book The Intercountry Adoption Debate

Download or read book The Intercountry Adoption Debate written by Robert L. Ballard and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an understanding of a complex range of issues. These issues intersect at multiple levels and processes, span geographic and political boundaries, and emerge from radically different cultural beliefs and systems. The result is a myriad of benefits and costs that are both global and deeply personal in scope. This edited volume introduces this complexity an ...

Book CHRIST RETURN Encoded in the Great Pyramid

Download or read book CHRIST RETURN Encoded in the Great Pyramid written by Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayan Calendar experts cracked the language code, finding the date predicted when the solar system would cross into the northern hemisphere of the Milky Way Galaxy and the golden age would begin. In the Great Pyramid the same information and the end time when the last day is the same date, but it also predicts the return of Christ and He is on the planet today.The Great Pyramid conspiracy is the direct result of the Catholic Church, which hung a mask of Jesus hung upon the body of Lucifer. There is however a linking of ancient wonders within the Great Pyramid, which predicts that Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall was reborn to the earth January 11th 1944 in Australia. The key that opens the mysteries of the old Testament Hebrew pinpointing the second coming of Jesus is in the Mayan Calendar found also in the 5000 year old pyramid and is why the church destroyed the Mayans proof of Jesus far removed from the greatest enemy of Jesus the Catholic Church.

Book Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Eco environment

Download or read book Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Eco environment written by Liqiang Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation. Using seabird subfossils, such as bones, guano, eggshells etc., which have been well preserved on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, the author identifies the influences of climate change and human activity on seabird populations and diets. Understanding the past is of great importance for predicting the future, and seabird subfossils provide valuable information, which can be used to study changes in seabird ecology, paleoceanography and palaeoclimate. Furthermore, this study proposes examining the biogeochemical cycling of some elements present in the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. Dr. Liqiang Xu works at the Hefei University of Technology, China.

Book An Eternal Lei

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naomi Hirahara
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2022-03-22
  • ISBN : 1684427983
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book An Eternal Lei written by Naomi Hirahara and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the lei is traced back to her best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family’s flower business. While the woman is in a medically-induced coma at a local hospital, Leilani sets out to discover her identity and her connections to the island. She is drawn deeper into the mystery, only to stumble into secrets that prove deadly. When Leilani’s investigation puts her family in danger, her survival and the safety of those dearest to her will depend on her sense of ingenuity and the strength of her island community.

Book The Human Radiation Experiments

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1996-06-06
  • ISBN : 0195107926
  • Pages : 655 pages

Download or read book The Human Radiation Experiments written by United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.S. government in which human subjects were exposed to radiation, often without their knowledge or consent. Based on a review of hundreds of thousands of heretofore unavailable or classified documents, this Report tells a gripping story of the intricate relationship between science and the state.Under the thick veil of government secrecy, researchers conducted experiments that ranged from the mundane to such egregious violations as administering radioactive tracers to mentally retarded teenagers, injecting plutonium into hospital patients, and intentionally releasing radiation into the environment. This volume concludes with a discussion of the Committee's key findings and guidelines for changes in institutional review boards, ethics rules and policies, and balancing national security interests with individual rights. Ethicists, public health professionals and those interested in the history of medicine and Cold War history will be intrigued by the findings of this landmark report.

Book Atomic Doctors

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  • Author : James L. Nolan Jr.
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-06
  • ISBN : 0674249429
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Atomic Doctors written by James L. Nolan Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.