scholarly journals “Post-Quantal Garden” Annotated

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Bomb Test ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Enewetak Atoll

The Post-Quantal Garden is a work of speculative fiction based on J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Terminal Beach” first published in 1964. Set within Donna Haraway’s climate-changed Chthulucene, the work is intended as an elliptical rumination on the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific, bio-hacking, tropicality, and apocalyptic narrative. Moving between historical fact and speculative fiction, the story takes the form of a scholarly introduction to and contextualization of fictional passages from an imaginary journal supposedly found during the very real radiological clean-up of Enewetak Atoll. Enewetak, an atoll in the Marshall Islands group, was used by the US for nuclear testing and was the site of operation Ivy-Mike, the first fusion bomb test, and is the setting for Ballard’s Terminal Beach.      

The Marshallese look: Clothing, culture and identity in a disappearing world

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312
Author(s):  
C. A. DeCoursey ◽  
Ewa B. Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Style Preferences

Marshallese youth face extraordinary challenges in creating an identity, due to their economy, isolated location – the Marshall Islands are located in the central Pacific Ocean and comprise of more than 1200 islands and islets – the history of US nuclear testing in the islands and climate change. Contemporary youth identity construction requires constant acts of acculturation, due to media and globalization. This study used content and transitivity analyses to explore how Marshallese youth understand their distinctive look. Content sub-unit frequencies indicated that the Marshallese community was the most significant factor in defining style, particularly cultural uniqueness, history, religion and generational differences. Collective pronouns indicated that acculturation anxieties stemmed from cultural differences and loss and were managed by asserting community affiliation. Personal style preferences reflected contextual and financial limitations. Process-type analysis constructed culture as the most vigorous actor and speaker, where youth roles included perception and cognition, with other islands’ views mediating between the two. Roles attributed to the media and the West included emoting and wanting, where China more closely resembled Marshallese youth, though the ubiquity of western content may render its agency somewhat invisible to Marshallese youth. Overall, Marshallese youth harmonize their individuality within attributed community and contextual factors. This is likely to be their preferred strategy when they emigrate to the United States, a highly individualistic country. Marshallese parents and second-generation Marshallese will require support, in their new context.

The humanitarian impact and implications of nuclear test explosions in the Pacific region

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (899) ◽  
pp. 775-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman A. Ruff
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Nuclear Test ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Global Impacts

AbstractThe people of the Pacific region have suffered widespread and persisting radioactive contamination, displacement and transgenerational harm from nuclear test explosions. This paper reviews radiation health effects and the global impacts of nuclear testing, as context for the health and environmental consequences of nuclear test explosions in Australia, the Marshall Islands, the central Pacific and French Polynesia. The resulting humanitarian needs include recognition, accountability, monitoring, care, compensation and remediation. Treaty architecture to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons and provide for their elimination is considered the most promising way to durably end nuclear testing. Evidence of the humanitarian impacts of nuclear tests, and survivor testimony, can contribute towards fulfilling the humanitarian imperative to eradicate nuclear weapons.

scholarly journals Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Nuclear Histories

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Anderson ◽  
Marissa Bell ◽  
Claude-Yves Charron ◽  
Greg Donaghy ◽  
Sarah Fox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Uranium Mine ◽  
Reactor Accident ◽  
Nuclear Bomb ◽  
Bomb Test ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Archives

Nuclear histories are global yet worryingly incomplete. Linking a plutonium refinery in Washington, a uranium mine in Saskatchewan, a tsunami at Fukushima, a nuclear bomb test site in Rajasthan, a reactor ‘accident’ at Chernobyl, a shipping accident in the English Channel, and a president-to-prime-minister confrontation over the US-Canada frontier, these quasi-autobiographical essays prove the importance of public archives, personal files with fragments, oral histories, and private recollections. This is the social history, business history, environmental history, labour history, scientific and technological history, and indigenous history of the twentieth century. Hiding in Plain Sight offers everyone an entry to the irregularities of our ‘disorderly nuclear world’, and offers other researchers crucial insights to what richness lies within.

Occupation without End: Opposition to the US Military in Okinawa

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-838
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Northeast Coast

In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the military airfields and harbors have supported American interests and operations across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. While the Japanese state has been, at best, disinterested and, at worst, complicit in this occupation, there is a long history of Okinawan resistance. Most recently, a dynamic and complex network of groups and individuals has come together to contest plans by the Japanese and US authorities to relocate a Marine airfield to the northeast coast of Okinawa and create new training facilities in the nearby forests.

Orca

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Colby
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marine Predator ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Official Records

Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place. Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s--the victims of whalers, fishermen, and even the US military. In the Pacific Northwest, fishermen shot them, scientists harpooned them, and the Canadian government mounted a machine gun to eliminate them. But that all changed in 1965, when Seattle entrepreneur Ted Griffin became the first person to swim and perform with a captive killer whale. The show proved wildly popular, and he began capturing and selling others, including Sea World's first Shamu. Over the following decade, live display transformed views of Orcinus orca. The public embraced killer whales as charismatic and friendly, while scientists enjoyed their first access to live orcas. In the Pacific Northwest, these captive encounters reshaped regional values and helped drive environmental activism, including Greenpeace's anti-whaling campaigns. Yet even as Northwesterners taught the world to love whales, they came to oppose their captivity and to fight for the freedom of a marine predator that had become a regional icon. This is the definitive history of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca"--and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.

scholarly journals H. Baldwin’s Memorandum for the US Government “On Military Cooperation of Russia in the Pacific War” (1942) as a Historical Source

2020 ◽  
pp. 291-300
Author(s):  
E. V. Bodrova ◽  
V. V. Kalinov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

Issues related to US attempts to engage the USSR in a direct clash with Japan during the Second World War are examined. The relevance of the study is due to the fierce ongoing debate regarding a number of aspects of the history of the war years. Particular attention is paid to the study of a document sent by the Soviet intelligence agencies to I. V. Stalin in 1942. The novelty of the study is seen, first of all, in the fact that the document under study was declassified only at the present time and has not been published before. Meanwhile, the document testifies to the strategies proposed to the US government by a number of very influential and informed representatives of the American elite, aimed at drawing the Soviet Union into the war with Japan. It is shown in this document that the role of the USSR in the Pacific theater of operations is rightly defined as very significant. Of particular interest is the list of recommendations cited in the article by H. Baldwin, the author of the document studied, recommendations designed to ensure the involvement of the USSR in the war with Japan. The conclusion is formulated that the studied “Memorandum” confirms the readiness of the Allies to do a lot to achieve the desired. At the same time, it demonstrates the temporary nature of a community of interests and is by no means an allied attitude towards our country.

Pea Aphid Outbreaks and Virus Epidemics on Peas in the US Pacific Northwest: Histories, Mysteries, and Challenges

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Clement
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Plant Virus ◽  
Pea Aphid ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eastern Washington ◽  
Aphid Host

This review documents the history of pea aphid outbreaks and epidemics of pea aphid-transmitted viruses on peas in the Pacific Northwest, with emphasis on outbreaks and epidemics in the Palouse region of eastern Washington over 23 years. This article will enable researchers and industry leaders to target resources to areas requiring more research for better understanding of pea aphid-host plant-virus relationships in the Pacific Northwest. Accepted for publication 3 August 2006. Published 18 October 2006.

scholarly journals FAKTA SEJARAH DALAM CERPEN INDAHNYA PERSATUAN KARYA ODHY’S

tuahtalino ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Khairul Fuad
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Reading First ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Fact

This research aims to know the historical facts behind the Odhy’s’s sort story Indahnya Persatuan. As the work of literature relates certainly to the space and time so those contexts will surround it certainly. Historical context denotes the problem which fills in that short story through reading first. Knowing included answering the historical context is used method of qualitative with theory of contextuality and socio-history for revealing the historical facts were appeared. Then, the result of research was found the historical fact related with the horizontal conflict between Dayaknese and Madurese. The other hand, the other historical facts were found as chronological history of that horizontal conflict. The conclusion of result of research was the short story Indahnya Persatuan containing the elements of historical facts were happened in West Borneo. Through those result can be mentioned that the process of literature work related deeply to contextuality, either the space or the time.

The Nuclear Sensorium: Cold War Nuclear Imperialism and Sensory Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shiga
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThis paper traces the sensory dimensions of nuclear imperialism focusing on the Cold War nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States military in the Marshall Islands during the 1950s. Key to the formation of the “nuclear sensorium” were the interfaces between vibration, sound, and radioactive contamination, which were mobilized by scientists such as oceanographer Walter Munk as part of the US Nuclear Testing Program. While scientists occupied privileged points in technoscientific networks to sense the effects of nuclear weapons, a series of lawsuits filed by communities affected by the tests drew attention to military-scientific use of inhabitants’ bodies as repositories of data concerning the ecological impact of the bomb and the manner in which sensing practices used to extract this data extended the violence and trauma of nuclear weapons. Nuclear imperialism projected its power not only through weapons tests, the vaporization of land and the erosion of the rights of people who lived there, but also through the production of a “nuclear sensorium”—the differentiation of modes of sensing the bomb through legal, military, and scientific discourses and the attribution of varying degrees of epistemological value and legal weight to these sensory modes.

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