Nuclear Tsunami: The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster

by Richard Krooth, Hiroshi Fukurai, Morris Edelson

Book Overview

This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths, Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a significant decline of local industries and economies. The Fukushima nuclear disaster substantiated that U.S. propaganda programs left a long lasting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739195697
• ISBN13: 9780739195697
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.1"