U.S. Depleted Uranium Shells Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

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Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by: David Gutierrez

 

(NaturalNews) The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S.

military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs

dropped at the end of World War II.

 

DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately

one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of

its

high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been

fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in

Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli _military_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/military.html) in Lebanon and Palestine.

 

Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been

classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

 

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of DU

dust from the first _Gulf War_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/Gulf_War.html)

could lead to 500,000 _cancer_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html) deaths

by the year 2000. To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been generated in the

_Middle East_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/Middle_East.html) .

 

In contrast, approximately 250,000 lives were claimed by the explosions and

radiation released by the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

" More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric

testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991, " said

Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. " The genetic future of the Iraqi

people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely

radioactive. "

 

Because DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Middle East will, for

all practical purposes, be radioactive forever.

 

The two U.S. wars in _Iraq_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/Iraq.html) " have

been nuclear wars because they have scattered nuclear material across the land,

and people, particularly children, are condemned to die of malignancy and

congenital disease essentially for eternity, " said anti-nuclear activist Helen

Caldicott.

 

Since the first Gulf War, the rate of birth defects and childhood cancer in

Iraq has increased by seven times. More than 35 percent (251,000) of U.S.

Gulf War veterans are dead or on permanent medical disability, compared with

only 400 who were killed during the conflict.

 

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Not only is the Middle East at risk. The whole world is at risk because DU does

not disipate. It is hovering over the atmosphere and not going anywhere. When

it rains, it comes down with the rain to our soils, plants, and animals.

 

It is about time we all start ingesting anti radioactive food like kelp,

moringa oleifera, etc. No one is going to protect us, so we ourselves have to

take the action.

 

Melly