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 legacy in Japan and beyond and created the fertile ground for the future nuclear disaster. The book reveals Japan's tripartite organization of the dominating state, media-monopoly, and nuclear-plant oligarchy advancing nuclear proliferation. It details America's unprecedented pro-nuclear propaganda campaigns; Japan's secret ambitions to develop its own nuclear bombs; U.S. dumping of reprocessed plutonium on Japan; and the joint U.S.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for "safe" nuclear-power and the current "safe-nuclear particles" myths. The study shows how the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on the population in post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the future.

Richard Krooth, PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, has much practical experience in issues invoked in this book, having worked for environmental preservation his entire adult life. Author of over a dozen books on history and nature, a rare scholar with a Ph.D. and J.D., he writes about his life travels and library discoveries. This volume illustrates his concerns for humanity and all living things, as well as his wide-ranging research and use of first-hand reports and observations, attempting to put the current planetary crisis into the context of its historical setting.

Table of Contents
Part I: Roots-U.S. Psychological Warfare Strategies & Propaganda Campaigns In Japan
Chapter 1: Most Nuclear-Feared Populations to the Atomic Enthusiast

Part II: Nuclear Fallout
Chapter 2: Trial by Sea, Trial by Fire
Chapter 3: Invisible Bullets
Chapter 4: Ignoring Risks to Species Life
Chapter 5: Mission Impossible: All About Nuclear Reactors
Chapter 6: Hubris and the Meta-World

Part III: In The Maelstrom
Chapter 7: Fail-Safe Fails Again
Chapter 8: Radiation Without End
Chapter 9: Nature as Nuclear Trash Bin
Chapter 10: Can Anyone Ever Pay?
Chapter 11: Returning-on Shaken Feet
Chapter 12: Popular Rights versus Corporate Power
Chapter 13: Who is in Charge Here?
Chapter 14: Making a Nation Safe for Profits
Chapter 15: Futures Unknown