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The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War : The Rongelap Report
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ISBN: 1315431793 Year: 2010 Publisher: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press,

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The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a 1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethic


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Oversight on the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) : medical treatment of the Marshallese people, U.S. nuclear tests, Nuclear Claims Tribunal, forced resettlement, use of Kwajalein Atoll for missile programs, and land use development : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, May 20, 2010.
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.,


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Oversight on the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) : medical treatment of the Marshallese people, U.S. nuclear tests, Nuclear Claims Tribunal, forced resettlement, use of Kwajalein Atoll for missile programs, and land use development : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, May 20, 2010.
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Republic of Marshall Islands : 2009 Article IV Consultation : staff report : a public information notice : ... a statement by the Executive Director of the Republic of Marshall Islands on the Executive Board discussion.
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ISBN: 1462395767 1452793824 1280883588 9786613724892 1451986114 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that the economy of the Marshall Islands is on a path to recovery. A gradual expansion with growth reaching 0.5 percent in 2010 is supported by further growth in the fish processing industry and additional foreign grant assistance. Rising prices could stoke inflation and stifle domestic demand. Executive Directors have encouraged the authorities to continue to strengthen the statistical base, especially the coverage and timeliness of fiscal and balance of payments data, in order to improve policy analysis and decision-making.

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