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Depleted Uranium: Issues, Reports, News


Editors: Cathy Garger and Edward Pickersgill
Host: mytown.ca/dunews Established, May/05
Featuring: Leuren Moret & Best of Bob Nichols
And a special viewing: Indian Point Nuclear Dead Baby World Tour


Site tainted by uranium to be razed
by Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, 2 October 2008

Officials and residents in Concord, as well as environmentalists, are hailing the federal government's decision to demolish contaminated buildings at the Starmet/Nuclear Metals Inc. Superfund site, calling it a benchmark move toward cleaning up the hazardous area.
   The Environmental Protection Agency evaluated potential cleanup alternatives for the site and determined demolition and removal was the best option to prevent the release of depleted uranium and other hazardous substances from the buildings, an agency official said Friday. The cost of the work is expected to reach $64 million.


The Depleted Uranium Threat
by Thomas D. Williams, 14 August 2008

While attempting to act as the planet's nuclear watchdogs, the United States and Great Britain have become two of the world's largest, cancer-causing radiated dust and rusty depleted uranium projectile polluters. Using tanks and planes, the US and British military have fired hundreds of tons of radioactive depleted uranium munitions (DU) while fighting the first Gulf War, the Balkans War, and the more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.


6700 Tons of Radioactive Debris Shipped From Kuwait to Idaho
by Doug Rokke, Ph.D., 10 July 2008

During the summer of 1991, the United States military had collected artillery, tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, conventional and unconventional munitions, trucks, etc. at Camp Doha in Kuwait. As result of carelessness this weapons depot caught fire with consequent catastrophic explosion resulting in death, injury, illness and extensive environmental contamination from depleted uranium and conventional explosives.


California's Nuke Weapons Lab Creates Anxiety
by Cathy Garger, 1 January 2008

The recent article at InsideBayArea.com, "Lab's Changes Cause Staff Anxiety," discusses the downgrading of the managerial role - and alleged lessened involvement - of the University of California at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory outside San Francisco. The slant of this piece tries to make us feel sorry for academia at the University of California who no longer get to boast about being Big Nuke Scientists on Campus and hog all the limelight for their role in genocidal weapons-making at the Lab!


Interviews with Leuren Moret and Alfred Webre on International 9/11 Citizen’s War Crimes Tribunal
An unprecedented event is scheduled to take place Sunday, June 24, 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference. At this 9/11 Conference, Independent Scientist and world-renowned Uranium Weapons radiation expert, Leuren Moret, and International Lawyer Alfred Webre, J.D., M.Ed., will be calling publicly for the establishment of an International Citizen’s 9/11 War Crimes Tribunal.


Canada offers forum for lecturer barred from U.S.:
VANCOUVER — A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wants to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children will come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States. [Globe & Mail, April 11, 2007]


Helen Caldicott:
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee on nukes, global warming,
and why we’re closer to Armageddon than ever

Dr. Helen Caldicott has been advocating her own inconvenient truth for over a quarter-century, but her battle against nuclear power and nuclear weapons is still as controversial – and as necessary – as it has ever been. While Oscar-winning presumptive president Al Gore was still a congressman from Tennessee, and voting on what was then the largest military buildup in history, Caldicott was warning of the risks posed by both the nuclear arms race being orchestrated by the Reagan administration and the continued use of commercial nuclear power in communities around the United States. [LACITYBEAT.com, March 22, 2007]


Thwarted Warrior: Depleted uranium and the mystery of sick and dying Gulf War vets
"It's not about me," Doug Rokke said, and only reluctantly rattled off his laundry list of symptoms: fibromyalgia, broken teeth, radiation-induced cataracts, gastrointestinal pain. [The Smirking Chimp, April 11, 2007]


Livermore lab says bigger blasts would
send depleted uranium into air

TRACY - Bigger outdoor blasts proposed at an explosives test range southwest of Tracy could release up to 453 pounds of depleted uranium into the air a year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory officials told air pollution regulators in an application last week. [Recordnet.com, April 12, 2007]





DU News Archives

The Lebanese Velvet Revolution [Global Research.ca] On Friday the first of December waves and waves of thousands of Lebanese had converged, from the four corners of Lebanon, into the capital Beirut for an anticipated long sit-in demonstration against the present government demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his ministers, the formation of a new more representative government, and the reforming of the country’s electoral laws. The protesters pitched tents near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to government’s headquarters, where the Prime Minister Siniora and several of his cabinet ministers were holed up inside. They determined to sit-in as long as it takes for the government to acknowledge their demands and to resign. [November 7, 2006]

Khiam bomb crater tests positive for uranium [Yahoo News] Tests carried out on samples taken from a bomb crater in the southern region of Khiam following the summer war with Israel showed the presence of uranium, Chris Busby, the British scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, told Environment and Development magazine for its December issue. [December 7, 2006]

US and Israel Targeting DNA in Gaza? The DIME Bomb: Yet Another Genotoxic Weapon, Part I [Al-Jazeerah] It’s been almost five months since the first report that Israeli drone aircraft have been dropping a “mystery weapon” on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Since then, news media around the world have run stories depicting the strange and “horrific” wounds inflicted by the new bomb. The international press has spoken with Palestinian doctors and medics who say Israel’s new device is a kind of chemical weapon that has significantly increased the fatality rate among the victims of Israeli attacks. [December 6, 2006]

Gulf War veteran fights for assistance, understanding [Mohave Daily News] He grew up the only white kid on his block in a black neighborhood with a soaring homicide rate. He was robbed at gunpoint four times and dropped out of high school during his freshman year. There was little discipline at home - where he says he was both beaten and sexually molested - and he rebelled by ditching school and experimenting with drugs. No one could tell him what to do, he thought. [December 3, 2006]

Democracy, a death sentence for Afghanistan [Renew America] I recently purchased a book that deeply saddens and troubles me. The old cliché — "a picture is worth a thousand words" is applicable to this book. Many of the photos in this book are of children, orphans — made older than their tender years by the daily deprivation of essential needs. They are beautiful children with dark, poignant eyes. Most of us will never experience, during our entire lives, the death and destruction that encompasses their vulnerable existence each and every day. This is a book every American must read — “Afghanistan After Democracy”. It depicts, through pictures, the horrific results of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan. [November 29, 2006]

Dear Mr President : Thanksgiving Mea Culpas [Global Research] It occurred that at this time when Americans have celebrated with family and friends, said individual prayers of thanks for the bounties granted during the year, you might have been a bit challenged, given the gargantuan disasters and tragedies your policies have engendered. And of course a little local difficulty at the mid-term elections and growing mutterings of impeachment growing from various quarters. [November 27, 2006]

Is Depleted Uranium the suspect behind Military Suicides? [Global Research] Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become an epidemic amongst soldiers/sailors serving and veterans who have returned from the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasons are being depicted as purely psychological, but this seems to be very misleading. [November 19, 2006]

Visiting graphic design artist illustrates war weaponry [Whitworthian] Graphic designer David Brodeur thinks his art can change someone’s perspective. “I don’t expect to change peoples mind,” Brodeur said in his presentation at the Koehler Gallery on Nov. 7. “But if I can touch one person, then I’m satisfied.” [November 14, 2006]

Military nanotechnology - how worried should we be? [Nanowerk Spotlight] All major powers are making efforts to research and develop nanotechnology- based materials and systems for military use. Asian and European countries, with the exception of Sweden (Swedish Defence Nanotechnology Programme), do not run dedicated programs for defense nanotechnology research. Rather, they integrate several nanotechnology-related projects within their traditional defense-research structures, e.g., as materials research, electronic devices research, or bio-chemical protection research. Not so the U.S. military. Stressing continued technological superiority as its main strategic advantage, it is determined to exploit nanotechnology for future military use and it certainly wants to be No. 1 in this area. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is a major investor, spending well over 30% of all federal investment dollars in nanotechnology. Of the $352m spent on nanotech by the DoD in 2005, $1m, or roughly 0.25%, went into research dealing with potential health and environmental risks. In 2006, estimated DoD nanotechnology expenditures will be $436m – but the risk-related research stays at $1m. [November 13, 2006]

Israel Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in Lebanon [Global Research.ca] The special report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The measurements were carried out by two Lebanese professors of physics - Mohammad Ali Kubaissi and Ibrahim Rachidi. The data - 700 nanosieverts per hour – showed remarkably higher radiocativity then the average in the area (Beirut = 35 nSv/hr ). Successivamente, on September 17th, Ali Kubaissi took British researcher Dai Williams, from the environmentalist organization Green Audit, to the same site, to take samples that were then submitted to Chris Busby, technical adisor of the Supervisory Committee on Depleted Uranium, which reports to the British Ministry of Defense. The samples were tested by Harwell’s nuclear laboratory, one of the most authoritative research centers in the world. On October 17th, Harwell disclosed the testing results - two samples in 10 did contain radioactivity. [November 11, 2006]

How We Let Veterans Suffer In Lonely Silence [theday.com] Though the feds have spent millions of dollars and the press has devoted thousands of inches to the new Air Force Memorial in Washington, D.C., neighter shows similar concern for our needy ex-combatants. You might expect that veterans, especially afflicted ones, would be the most honored and best cared for members of society. They sacrificed while many citizens merely applauded. [November 11, 2006]

CHP questions radioactive issue: [Daily News/Istanbul]A member of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) submitted a written inquiry to the Parliament Speaker's Office questioning recent reports alleging that radioactive remains have been found in areas where Turkish troops have been deployed in southern Lebanon as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force. [November 11, 2006]

Dispatches From the Edge: Coming Home: War and Remembrance [Berkeley Daily Planet]Clearly the U.S. Civil War is not on the reading list of psychiatrist Sally Satel, a scholar at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Indeed, Satel sees war less as hell, than as a golden opportunity for veteran lay-abouts to milk the government by “overpathologizing the psychic pain of war.” …..Modern battlefields are toxic nightmares, filled with depleted uranium ammunition and exotic explosives, and strewn with deadly cluster bomblets. The soldiers are shot up with experimental vaccines, some of which have dangerous side effects from additives like squalene. In short, soldiers are not only under fire, they are assaulted by their own weapons systems and medical procedures. [November 10, 2006]

Uranium Weapons Causing Cancer in Iraq [ZAMAN Online] The World Health Organization (WHO) had released a study on depleted uranium in 2001 after serious doubts emerged over its damage to health. [November 10, 2006]

Low Intensity Nuclear War [Global Research.ca] This article was originally published by Telepolis (Germany) on 15 March 2001 and by Global Research on 20 August 2002. We are posting this text with a view to establishing the record of US-NATO war crimes in Kosovo. This initial report published in early 2001 is presented in the context of recent and ongoing findings on the impacts of depleted uranium radiation in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan. The comparative study of these three war theaters is crucial in establishing the broader record of US-NATO war crimes.. [November 5, 2006]

Depleted Uranium Haunts Kosovo and Iraq [Global Researcher] Iraq and Kosovo may be thousands of miles apart, but they share the dubious distinction of contamination with radioactive residue from depleted uranium (DU) bullets used in American air strikes. After several years of silence, US officials finally admitted that 340 tons of DU were fired during the Gulf war. In Kosovo, American delays in providing details of quantities and target points have frustrated international efforts to assess health risks. Despite repeated requests, NATO waited almost a full year after the start of bombing in March 1999 to say that 31,000 DU bullets--a fraction of the number fired in Iraq--were fired by A-10 "tankbuster" aircraft over Kosovo. A Belgrade report published this April estimates that about 50,000 DU bullets had been used in parts of Serbia and Montenegro as well as Kosovo. Evidence is plentiful on the ground that DU was used in heavily populated areas, and that civilians and returning refugees were never warned of the danger. [November 5, 2006]

Israel War Crimes in Lebanon confirmed: Samples from two bomb craters show high radioactivity [GlobalResearch.ca] The United Nations, which has been studying ecological damage in Lebanon caused by Israel's summer offensive, said Saturday that it would soon be able to say whether uranium-based munitions were used, as reported by a British newspaper. The Independent newspaper said scientists studying samples of soil after Israeli bombing in Lebanon have shown high radiation levels, suggesting that uranium-based munitions were used. [November 2, 2006]

Washington and London Ignore Depleted Uranium Risk [Periodico26.com] Both U.S. and British troops are reported to have used depleted uranium in Iraq, according to an investigation conducted by the BBC. And the report notes that U.S. and UK forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings that they pose a cancer risk. [November 3, 2006]

Saving troops from a deadly, invisible enemy [Toronto Star] In addition to their flak jackets, rifles and helmets, Canada's troops in Afghanistan are carrying another little known piece of protective equipment: radiation meters. [October 30, 2006]

Veterans a Top Concern for Candidates [Missourian News] The war in Iraq, the conflict in Afghanistan and other military operations around the world are pushing veterans issues back into the forefront of the minds of Americans – and their political candidates….The military uses depleted uranium for enhanced armor protection for some Abrams tanks, armor-piercing munitions, and as stabilizers for airplanes and boats. According to the World Heath Organization, exposure to depleted uranium is relatively harmless as long as it remains outside the body. Inhaling or digesting depleted uranium, however, may cause damage to the lungs and kidneys. [November 2, 2006]

War Crimes or Not War Crimes? [OhmyNews International] Because of the high density of the material, depleted uranium munitions (DU) are particularly suitable to pierce armor-vehicle or bunkers. They have been used in Kuwait, Iraq, and Kosovo. There are some allegations that they may have been used in Palestine. The analysis of samples gathered from two bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri indicates that the Israeli Defense Force probably used some kind of uranium-based weapons in Lebanon last summer. Although Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the use of such weapons, the question of their legality is once more in the spotlight. [November 2, 2006]

Research team tests Khiam soil samples for signs of radiation [The Daily Star] A team from the National Organization for Nuclear Power, affiliated with the National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR), surveyed the town of Khiam on Wednesday to follow up on an Environment and Development magazine report that showed high levels of radiation in samples taken from a bomb crater in the area. [November 2, 2006]

Depleted uranium risk 'ignored' [BBC] UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found. Scientists have pointed to health statistics in Iraq, where the weapons were used in the 1991 and 2003 wars. [November 1, 2006]

ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE HEARS CALL FOR SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE IN EFFORT TO COMPLETE COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM [PressZoom] The Committee, which has the task of negotiating the terms of the comprehensive convention, has yet to overcome differences of position as to whether there should be specific references to “State terrorism” and a clear distinction between, in essence, “terrorist” and “freedom-fighter”. [October 16, 2006]

DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT! Invisible War, Part 4 [YouTube] A provocative video showing results of research done by qualified scientists as well as interviews with Gulf War vets regarding Depleted Uranium [October 13, 2006]

DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT! Invisible War, Part 1-7 [YouTube] A series of provocative videos showing results of research done by qualified scientists as well as interviews with Gulf War vets regarding Depleted Uranium. Sries Parts 1-7 available. [October 13, 2006]

Weapons Used and Targets Hit in Israeli Bombing Raids [Global Research] The following maps of Lebanon (scroll down) indicate the amount of munitions used on targets, and what parts of the infrastructure were destroyed by Israeli military attacks. .... [August 23, 2006]

Local Iraq Vet Says He Has 'New' Agent Orange [WESH News] Chuck Hubert of Ocala fought in Iraq, and he said he believes he is suffering from the "new" Agent Orange...Hubert said he and thousands of others who have returned from the Iraq war are battling the effects of inhaling depleted uranium yet no one's listening. [August 23, 2006]

Democracy Camped Out [Traprock Peace Center]The First Amendment states that the people have a right to peaceably assemble and petition their representatives for a redress of grievances, and since the Bonus Army in 1932, the Washington Mall has been the place to do it. I'm here today at Camp Democracy, where the talk of the moment is how four veterans were detained at the Pentagon for passing out fliers against Depleted Uranium. [September 10, 2006]

Alarm over using lake as firing range [Toronto Star] Canadian environmentalists and shipping companies are expressing concern now that the U.S. Coast Guard has unveiled a plan to hold live-ammunition training sessions on the Great Lakes. "On the surface, it seems pretty irresponsible to be firing rounds there," said Ed Rahn, manager of vessel traffic for Seaway Marine Transport in St. Catharines. "As far as I know, we haven't even heard anything about this." [September 2, 2006]]

Comments on Helen Caldicott's New Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer [Mathaba]No one writes with more passion, commitment and knowledge about the immense dangers of nuclear technology in all its forms than Australian physician and nuclear expert Helen Caldicott. Since writing her first book (must reading for everyone), Nuclear Madness, in 1978, Dr. Caldicott has worked tirelessly to expose the real threat this technology from hell poses to human survival. [August 2006]

Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians [uruknet] Esteemed depleted uranium expert Dr. Doug Rokke is pointing the finger at Israel for using deadly and illegal depleted uranium munitions against the Lebanese people which were sold to them by the U.S. government - and calls for an immediate halt to the practice.[July 2006]

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By Bush, Blair, Olmert [Indymedia - UK] The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the middle east. [July 2006]

An Evolution That Would Blow Darwin's Mind [Counterbias] Forget the exploits of John Brown and Carrie Nation. Their violent efforts for virtuous causes are but distant memories in the Land of Oz. Here in contemporary Kansas, many socially conservative uber-patriots fastidiously and “peacefully” adhere to an American sociopolitical system which is becoming increasingly hostile to science, peace, human rights, the environment, and minorities. Yes, the “American Way” has become rife with many of the truly vulgar and destructive aspects of humanity. {August 15, 2006]

Commentary: Pentagon may be own deadliest enemy [Middle East Times] When it comes to making war, the Pentagon may be its own deadliest enemy. Of the nearly 700,000 American troops dispatched to fight in the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein's forces killed 148 and wounded 467. But more than 200,000 veterans of that blitzkrieg - about a third of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's army - filed claims for medical care, compensation, and pensions based on combat-related injuries and illnesses. [August 16, 2006]

Speak, Memory [uruknet] Brevity may be the soul of wit in the original meaning of that term: the act of intelligence. (I.e., the act that cuts through all the ideological bullshit and goes straight to the heart of horror.)...Today a new kind of nuclear war is being fought-- as harbinger to the next kind of nuclear war, which will be fought tomorrow. [August 2006]

Are depleted uranium weapons, America's newest armaments, sickening troops? [Canadian Press] It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills - morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves. [Aug. 13, 2006]

Sickened Iraq Vets Cite Depleted Uranium [Salon.com] It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills -- morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves. [August 13,2006 ]

"A short review of depleted uranium toxicity" [Jane's] There are several reports in the news about the implied toxicity of depleted uranium used for projectiles and shielding material in modern warfare. It has been suggested to be a potent carcinogen and leukemia inducer.

Depleted Uranium in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a Post-Conflict Assessment [UNEP] A 303 page report by the United Nations Environment Programme covering the variety of concerns related to DU contamination of the environment in Bosnia Herzegovina following armed conflict in which DU munitions and armor were utilized.

Depleted Uranium in Serbia and Montenegro - a Post-Conflict Assessment [UNEP] A 200 page report by the United Nations Environment Programme covering the variety of concerns related to DU contamination of the environment in Serbia and Montenegro following armed conflict in which DU munitions and armor were utilized.

WHO Factsheet on Depleted Uranium [WHO] Information from the World Health Organization including the characteristics and health effects of depleted uranium (DU).

Determination of 238u/235u, 236u/238u and uranium concentration in urine using sf-icp-ms and mc-icp-ms: an interlaboratory comparison [Health physics/e-Prints U of Southampton] Accidental exposure to depleted or enriched uranium may occur in a variety of circumstances. There is a need to quantify such exposure, with the possibility that the testing may post-date exposure by months or years. [30 March 2006]

"Depleted Uranium Report of the United Nations Enviornment Programme" [UNEP] The health effects resulting from DU exposure depend on the route and magnitude of exposure and the characteristics of the DU, such as particle size, chemical form and solubility. Where DU munitions have been used, DU penetrators, penetrator fragments and jackets/casings can be found lying on the surface or buried at varying depths.

Depleted Uranium Information Page [Deployment Health Support Directorate] Detailed in formation on the health related concerns about depleted uranium.

The health hazards of depleted uranium munitions-Parts I and II [The Royal Society – UK] Two reports from the Royal Society examining the health effects of depleted uranium munitions, published in May 2001.

"The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children" [Traprock Peace Center] an award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn, and released by Ochoa-Wagner Produktion in 2004 in Germany, exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. [May 1, 2005]

Depleted Uranium Awareness – United Nations Environment Programme Pamphlet [UNEP] Information pamphlet from UNEP summarizing the concerns and precautions related to DU. Studies confirm that DU has environmental impacts. Health risks primarily depend on the awareness of people coming into contact with DU.

DU - The Ticking Nuke In Bush's White House War Room by Dave Lindorff
Quietly, and under the radar for now, a movement is growing across the country that could blow up White House war planning and finish off the U.S. adventure in Iraq.
   That movement is state-by-state legislation to provide for testing of returning National Guard troops for signs of contamination by depleted uranium.



Click to DEPLETED URANIUM EDUCATION PROJECT

Radioactive Wounds of War [truthout.org] Gerard Matthew thought he was lucky. He returned from his Iraq tour a year and a half ago alive and in one piece. But after the New York State National Guardsman got home, he learned that a bunkmate, Sgt. Ray Ramos, and a group of N.Y. Guard members from another unit had accepted an offer by the New York Daily News and reporter Juan Gonzalez to be tested for depleted uranium (DU) contamination, and had tested positive [August 25, 2005].

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
ICBUW Mission Statement, 11 December 2003

On October 13th, 2003, after a conference in Berlaar, Belgium, grassroots organisations and experts in several disciplines launched an international campaign for a ban on the military use of uranium [1] and other radioactive materials in weaponry.

US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal' by Neil Mackay

BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.

Depleted Uranium weapons in 2001-2002

Current Issues - Depleted Uranium Weapons

Depleted Uranium Weapons: Washinton Post

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium

Links on Depleted Uranium Weapons: Military Armaments - Depleted Uranium Weapons

WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq

The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU): how DU enters the body

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

Facts, Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons

Burning 'Depleted' Uranium: An Endless Medical Disaster

Depleted Uranium Weapons and Acute Post-War Health Effects: An IPPNW Assessment

Silent WMDs Effects of Depleted Uranium

dmoz: open directory project: Warfare and Conflict: Weapons: Depleted Uranium

Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

An International Appeal to Ban the Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons, drafted by Ramsey Clark

IDUST: This site is an archival reference resource for Depleted Uranium issues




What Does "Mildly Radioactive" Mean, Anyway?

US Military, President Out of Control --What Does "Mildly Radioactive" Mean, Anyway?
By Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner

International Conference to Ban Uranium Weapons’ in the European Parliament in Brussels, June 2005









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