Depleted uranium is WMD. October Friday 14th 2005

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October Friday 14th 2005 (19h07) :

Depleted uranium is WMD

 

de Leuren Moret

 

My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in

Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an

international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S.

nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at

the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:

 

-Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass

destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code

Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302.

 

-DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague

and Geneva war conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws

and U.S. military law.

 

-Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity

equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global

atmosphere. That is 10 times the amount released during atmospheric

testing which was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs. The U.S.

has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere with radioactive

pollution having a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

 

-The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia,

Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU " conventional "

weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons.

 

-DU on the battlefield has three effects on living systems: it is a

heavy metal " chemical " poison, a " radioactive " poison and has a

" particulate " effect due to the very tiny size of the particles that

are 0.1 micron and smaller.

 

-The blueprint for DU weaponry is a 1943 Manhattan Project memo to

Gen. L. Groves that recommended development of radioactive materials

as poison gas weapons - dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets.

 

-DU weapons are very effective kinetic energy penetrators, but even

more effective bioweapons since uranium has a strong chemical affinity

for phosphate structures concentrated in DNA.

 

-DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war - it keeps giving and keeps

killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off

because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over

20 steps.

 

-Terry Jemison at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated in

August 2004 that over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are

now on medical disability, and that 7,039 were wounded on the

battlefield in that same period. Over 500,000 U.S. veterans are homeless.

 

-In some studies of soldiers who had normal babies before the war, 67

percent of the post-war babies are born with severe birth defects -

missing brains, eyes, organs, legs and arms, and blood diseases.

 

-In southern Iraq, scientists are reporting five times higher levels

of gamma radiation in the air, which increases the radioactive body

burden daily of inhabitants. In fact, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan

are uninhabitable.

 

-Cancer starts with one alpha particle under the right conditions. One

gram of DU is 1/20th of a cubic centimeter and releases 12,000 alpha

particles per second.

 

Before my grandfather died, he told me that his generation had made a

mess of this planet. I wonder what he would say to me now I would tell

him to see " Beyond Treason " (www.beyondtreason.com), a new documentary

about the history of treason by the U.S. government against our own

troops: Atomic veterans, MK-Ultra, Agent Orange and DU. After Vietnam,

Henry Kissinger said, " Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to

be used as pawns in foreign policy. . . " (from Chapter 5 in the " Final

Days " by Woodward and Bernstein).

 

Leuren Moret is an international radiation specialist, with a B.S.

degree in geology from University of California at Davis, a M.A.

degree in Near Eastern studies from University of California at

Berkeley and has done post-graduate work in the geosciences at

UC-Davis. She is environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley,

Calif.

 

By : Leuren Moret

October Friday 14th 2005