Poisoning the Pacific

For decades US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances including plutonium dioxin and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members their families and residents have been exposed―but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans Marshallese Chamorros and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan―the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination including Guam Saipan and Johnston Island the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange.Accompanying this damage US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups lies and attacks on the media which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now for the first time this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.