Guest guest Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 At 03:04 PM 2/21/07, you wrote: >Attack on Iran would result in India feeling nuked: Moret > >by Dhananjay Khadilkar > >Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:54:00 PM > >MUMBAI: Attack on Iran would be nothing short of a low level nuclear war >against India. That's the opinion of Leuren Moret, a former scientist at the >Livermore nuclear laboratory, who was here for a conference. > >Talking to DNA, Moret said that if the US attacks Iran, then India would >bear its disastrous consequences in the form of uranium oxide particles which >would remain suspended over the northern part of the country. > >According to Moret, it won't take more than two days for the uranium >particles to reach India. Egypt, the Middle East, Central Asia and >Pakistan too >would get affected, she added. > >Moret stated that the population staying in this region would become >vulnerable to diseases like cancer and diabetes. Terming the suspended >Uranium >particles as DNA time bomb, she said that because of the affinity of a >phosphate >in human DNA towards uranium, these particles destroy the DNA. Thus the >disastrous effects of depleted Uranium won't be limited to one generation >only. > >According to Moret, depleted uranium is the Trojan horse of nuclear war. " It >is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, " she added. The pyrophoric >nature of depleted uranium causes it to burn at very low temperatures. > >This makes it an ideal radioactive gas weapon. " Once it gets vapourised, >microscopic particles of Uranium oxide remain suspended and form the >radioactive >component of dust, " Moret said. > >Moret added that depleted uranium was introduced for the first time in the >Gulf War in 1991. Extensive carpet bombing in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and >Afghanistan >has already resulted in radioactive pollution over areas in Asia and Europe. > >Moret further said that the amount of low-level radioactive pollution from >depleted uranium since 1991 is equivalent to at least 4,00,000 Nagasaki >bombs. > >She said that the mysterious illnesses and post-war birth defects reported >among Gulf War veterans and civilians in Iraq, and radiation related >illnesses >in UN Peacekeepers serving in Yugoslavia is a testimony to the dangers posed >by depleted uranium. > >Original article: _http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1080179_ >(http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1080179) > >URL of this article: >_http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2007/02/attack_on_iran__1.html_ > >(http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2007/02/attack_on_iran__1.html) > ****** Kraig and Shirley Carroll ... in the woods of SE Kentucky http://www.thehavens.com/ thehavens 606-376-3363 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.859 / Virus Database: 585 - Release 2/14/05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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