Depleted Uranium Collection

There are treatments for DU exposure involving chelation therapy (used to remove heavy metals but removes good minerals also).

Cancer protocols and alternative treatments in our vlog and forum. Wink

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It makes me sick. New weapons = New diseases.

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Videos:

Beyond Treason and Depleted Uranium used in Iraq!

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Dr. Mohamed Miraki: USA used Depleted Uranium in Afganistan

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Poison Dust

Articles and Discussion:

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Depleted Uranium - A Tool to Depopulate the World

Uraniums Effect On DNA Established

Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

Images of Babies Deformed at Birth by DU

There are treatments for DU exposure involving chelation therapy (used to remove heavy metals but removes good minerals also).

Cancer protocols and alternative treatments in our vlog and forum. Wink

This and waco are why people have to wake see are satantic nazi goverment for what it is. :(

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You forget the most inportent victems. Our troops

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Denver-based journalist Eileen Welsome reveals how as a reporter for the tiny Albuquerque Tribune (circulation 35,000) she uncovered one of the country's great Cold War secrets: the U.S. government had knowingly exposed thousands of human Guinea pigs with radiation poisoning including 18 Americans who had plutonium injected directly into their bloodstream. [includes rush transcript]
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In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon-fed oatmeal laced with radioactive isotopes.
In an upstate New York hospital, an eighteen-year-old woman believing she was being treated for a pituitary disorder, was injected with plutonium.

At a Tennessee clinic, 829 pregnant women were served "vitamin cocktails" containing radioactive iron, as part of their regular treatment.

No these are not acts of terrorism by common criminals.

These are just some of the secret human radiation experiments that the U.S. government conducted on unsuspecting Americans for decades as part of its atom bomb program.

In a gruesome plot that spanned 30 years, doctors and scientists working with the US atomic weapons program, exposed thousands of unwilling and unknowing Americans to radiation poisoning to study its effects.

For years, the experiments by the U.S. government and the identities of their human guinea pigs were covered up.

Then after a six-year investigation, investigative reporter Eileen Welsome uncovered the names of 18 people who were injected with plutonium in the 1940s without their knowledge by federal government scientists. In 1993, she published her finding in The Albuquerque Tribune and later received the Pulitzer Prize for her work.

Another six years later, Welsome published "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War." The book gives a detailed account of the unspeakable scientific trials conducted by the U.S. government that reduced thousands of American men, women, and even children to nameless specimens.

Eileen Welsome, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and author of "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War."

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AMY GOODMAN: After a six-year investigation, reporter Eileen Welsome uncovered the identities of eighteen people injected with plutonium in the 1940's without their knowledge by federal government scientists. Eileen Welsome published her findings in a series in the “Albuquerque Tribune” and received the Pulitzer Prize for her work. It took another six years for her to complete her book called "The Plutonium Files, America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War." She joins us now in Boulder, Colorado. Eileen Welsome, thanks for joining us.

EILEEN WELSOME: Happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

AMY GOODMAN: Over the years we have spoken with you, but now that we're on this tour and you live in Denver, this is a rare opportunity to sit down and go through this story. First, how did you even get a clue that this was going on?

EILEEN WELSOME: Amy, it started, as you mentioned earlier, I was a reporter at the "Albuquerque Tribune" and I was doing some research on an air force base there, and they were doing some cleanup work. I noticed that in the document there were several radioactive animal dumps on this air force base. So I was curious about what kind of animals were in the dump and why were they radioactive? So I went over to the air force base, Kirkland Air Force Base, to what was then called the Air Force Special Weapons Laboratory. And they got out a big stack of these dusty reports for me to read on these animal studies. And so as I was thumbing through these reports, and it was horrible because they were incubating beagles and watching them develop cancers and how long they lived and charting the radiation sickness. But as a reporter, there wasn't a story there for me. These were old experiments and as gruesome as they were, it wasn't something that a daily newspaper would be interested in. So it was about 5:00 on Friday, I was eager to go home, but I felt like I had gone to this trouble to get these documents and I had to make my time look good. So I kept flipping through the reports. And my eye fell on a footnote and the footnote mentioned something about 18 humans who had been injected with plutonium. So I kind of reared back in my seat. I was just shocked. Shocked to think that our government had injected 18 people with plutonium. So I jotted down what I could from the citation and the next day, which was a Saturday, I went to the university library there and started hunting up reports about these scientists. So that was the beginning of it and the reason I looked at the footnote, I need to say this, is I had done a lot of financial reporting prior to that time and I know that whenever a company wants to put in the bad news, it's always in a footnote. So that taught me to look at footnotes.

AMY GOODMAN: And so how did you begin to unravel this story?

EILEEN WELSOME: Well, here was my problem: I learned there were some scientific reports in the literature, so I got those reports. I started to cull everything I could. And I learned that there were 18 people that had been injected with plutonium, but they were known by code numbers only. So the problem for me became how to find 18 Americans that had been injected with plutonium 30 or 40 years ago in a country of millions. So I thought that -- I mean, it was an impossible task, and so I started very crudely. I put these 18 code numbers on yellow sheets of paper and then as I gathered documents, I would write down what I knew about each of these 18 people. So I eventually learned their ages, the date they were injected, what kind of disease they had, if there was an autopsy or a biopsy conducted, and when they died. And then it was just a matter of continuing to do that and pick up clues.

AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about one of the 18 people.

EILEEN WELSOME: Well, I had gone off on a journalism fellowship and I had been filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the federal government. So I had a tiny folder on this experiment and when I came back and looked -- I pulled out my folder and I had fresh eyes. And I looked at this document again and these documents were redacted. In other words, the names of the patients were whited out and so were the names of the doctors. And my eye fell on this line, which said Doctor so and so contacted the physician of Cal-3 in Italy, Texas. And what leapt out at me were the words, Italy, Texas. By then, I knew a lot about Cal-3. I knew he was an African American man who would have been 80 years old, who would have been -- who had his left leg amputated three days after he was injected with plutonium. So given those few clues and that this person might have lived in Italy, Texas, I was determined to go there and knock on every door until I found this man.

AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Eileen Welsome. So tell us about your discovery, how you made contact.

EILEEN WELSOME: So I got out a map. I looked up Italy, Texas. It was south of Dallas, about 60 miles. I called directory assistance, got the number of Italy's City Hall, called them up, introduced myself, described the person I was looking for and they said, “You're looking for Elmer Allen, but he died a year ago. Would you like his wife's number?” So I said, “Of course.” And I wrote the number down and within minutes I was talking to Mrs. Allen.

AMY GOODMAN: And what did you say?

EILEEN WELSOME: I was very circumspect because I didn't want to frighten her and I didn't want to seem like a kook and I didn't want to put words in her mouth. I wanted to know what she remembered. So I simply said, you know, I had some documents that suggested that her husband may have been involved in a government-funded study and I would like to talk with her about it. And she asked me to talk to her daughter, Elmerine Allen Whitfield. And I called her and she was very quiet on the phone. As I reeled out my story, she said, “Ok, you can come on.” And so I flew to Italy, Texas, and we sat down at her kitchen table and by the end of the interview, I knew and they knew that I had found the first of these 18 people.

AMY GOODMAN: Elmer's story?

EILEEN WELSOME: Elmer's story.

AMY GOODMAN: What was Elmer's story, how did he end up in a hospital being injected with plutonium?

EILEEN WELSOME: Elmer was a railroad porter. He and his wife were living in the Bay Area in the mid 1940's. They had left Texas and gone out there to start a better life. They had two young babies. Elmer fell from the train in Chicago and damaged his leg, and that sort of put him into the medical system. That was the beginning of his participation in this experiment. And his leg did not heal and he kept going back to the doctor. Somehow he found himself in this clinic at U.C. San Francisco University of California Hospital in San Francisco, and they selected him for this radiation experiment.

AMY GOODMAN: But he didn't know that?

EILEEN WELSOME: Oh, no, no, he absolutely did not know. He was told that he had an osteosargenic sarcoma in his knee and they would have to amputate in order to save him. There's some question about whether he did or didn't have that cancer and I do not know the answer to that. But three days before they amputated that leg, they injected him in the calf, intramuscularly, with plutonium.

AMY GOODMAN: Didn't they -- he describe to his wife how they put a target on his leg and they injected it in that?

EILEEN WELSOME: They eventually, with the consent of Mrs. Allen, I was able to get Elmer's medical records from U.C. San Francisco and in those medical records, the doctors talked about putting that target on his calf prior to the injection.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, he never knew he was a subject in a U.S. government experiment, but he suspected something, is that right?

EILEEN WELSOME: Yes. He told a good friend of his in Italy, Texas, that the doctors kept flying in and out of his room practicing to be doctors. And he told his friend, "They guinea-pigged me."

AMY GOODMAN: We interviewed Elmerine Allen a number of times and she talked about how growing up her father would say that, and then when she left for college, he said, watch out, “Don't let the U.S. government guinea-pig you.” And they always thought that Elmer had some kind of, well, Elmer was kind of quirky, and he had this delusion that the government experimented on him.

EILEEN WELSOME: The sad part about Elmer's story is that nobody believed him. He went to his doctor and told him, “I think I've been injected with something.” His doctor diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic at the same time that he was conversing with the atomic energy scientists in Argon National Lab to provide them with tissue samples.

AMY GOODMAN: Wait, wait, his doctor said he was a paranoid schizophrenic at the same time his doctor was providing his tissues to the government scientists doing the experiment?

EILEEN WELSOME: That's correct. That's what the medical records show. So Elmer was not only used in 1947 when he was injected with this radioactive isotope, but he was continued to be used as a guinea pig for the rest of his life.

AMY GOODMAN: Being sent for example to where, Rochester, New York?

EILEEN WELSOME: In the -- the experiment had two parts. In the 1970's, the -- in the 1970's, a second generation of atomic scientists rediscovered this experiment. So they wanted to dig up all the people who were dead, who had been injected with plutonium, and they also wanted to bring whoever survived them back into the lab for further studies. And Elmer was one of those people.

AMY GOODMAN: Under what pretext since he didn't know, supposedly, that he was a U.S. government guinea pig?

EILEEN WELSOME: They told Elmer, and this is all documented in the medical records, that they knew he had a very serious cancer and they wanted to know where he had lived so long.

AMY GOODMAN: Eileen Welsome is our guest. Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, unearthed the names of 18 people injected with plutonium by the U.S. government. When we come back, we're going to talk about who these scientists were. We'll hear more of the stories. And then also the group studies, the studies of hundreds of people who were given -- well, a couple dozen disabled children in Massachusetts fed radioactive isotopes in their oatmeal, hundreds of pregnant women, also, served so-called vitamin cocktails containing radioactive iron -- how this all happened without anyone knowing about it until recently. Stay with us.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue looking at “The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War.” We're broadcasting from Boulder, Colorado and our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Eileen Welsome now lives in Denver. The lessons -- let the lessons of history remind us that the best safeguard for the future is an informed and active citizenry. Let's continue on this journey of the people who were injected, and the people who injected them. This certainly sounds a little like the Tuskegee experiments, but tell us, who ran this program?

EILEEN WELSOME: The program sounded in the Manhattan Project, the project to build the atomic bomb in the early 1940's. Side by side with the physicists worked a group of doctors who were interested in finding out how to protect their own workers in the Weapons Complex. And also trying to figure out what these new radio isotopes did in the human body. So basically, the beginning was the fathers of the bomb project, the medical doctors and scientists that were the tier below the Nobel Laureates, below the Oppenheimers and so on.

AMY GOODMAN: Did they know this was happening?

EILEEN WELSOME: Certainly the records indicate that Oppenheimer approved the injections of these patients with Plutonium, because Los Alamos was fighting a severe contamination problem and the scientists working in those laboratories were concerned about their own health.

AMY GOODMAN: Didn't Oppenheimer come from Berkeley, and you had Elmer who was injected in California?

EILEEN WELSOME: That's correct. There was a large component of the atomic bomb project in the Bay area.

AMY GOODMAN: Conducted where?

EILEEN WELSOME: At the University of California at Berkeley and also at the university of California San Francisco.

AMY GOODMAN: So we're talking about a nexus of university, military, working together?

EILEEN WELSOME: That's exactly right. During the Manhattan Project, it was a very strange hybrid animal where you had people that were in the military working for the military, and you had people that were getting paid by universities.

AMY GOODMAN: The robbing of graves?

EILEEN WELSOME: That occurred -- well, I don’t know if I would quite put it so strongly as that, but they did exhume bodies.

AMY GOODMAN: With the family's consent?

EILEEN WELSOME: They sought the consent of the families, but they did not tell the families the true purpose for the exhumations.

AMY GOODMAN: What did they tell them?

EILEEN WELSOME: That they had been given some radio isotope or some chemical and wanted to see what it had done in the bodies of their loved ones.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, that's true, isn't it?

EILEEN WELSOME: Yes, but they didn't use the word Plutonium.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you name a scientist and can you tell us what the response has been?

EILEEN WELSOME: When I did my research, most of the scientists, with the exception of Himer Fridel, who was the assistant medical director of the Manhattan Project, were dead.

AMY GOODMAN: The Manhattan Project being --

EILEEN WELSOME: The atomic bomb program. But the scientist who had conducted the more recent studies defended them. That they were important to protecting the workers in the nuclear weapons complex or that they were harmless.

AMY GOODMAN: So let's go through the experiments. The 18 people injected with Plutonium, none of them knew that that had happened to them. But moving on, in a Massachusetts school, 73 disabled children spoon fed oatmeal that had radio isotopes in them, radioactive isotopes. What happened?

EILEEN WELSOME: In that case, this was a nutrition study and they were given radioactive calcium and other radio isotopes.

AMY GOODMAN: Every morning?

EILEEN WELSOME: In their oatmeal, it was either mixed into the oatmeal or in the milk. And these boys did not know what was being given to them, nor did their parents. And in fact, they were told that this was really something nutritious and good for them. They were asked to give blood samples, urine samples, feces samples.

AMY GOODMAN: How long did this go on for?

EILEEN WELSOME: It went on for a number of years. And these boys grew into men and did not find out what had been done to them until the 1990's.

AMY GOODMAN: Upstate New York hospital, 18-year-old girl thinks she’s being treated for a pituitary disorder and gets injected with Plutonium?

EILEEN WELSOME: This was a young woman who like Elmer Allen wound up in a hospital at the wrong place and was injected.

AMY GOODMAN: Tennessee clinic, 829 pregnant women served radioactive iron as part of their regular treatment. What did they think they were getting?

EILEEN WELSOME: This was a study done immediately after World War II and these young women came to the clinic thinking that they were getting vitamins to drink, that this would help their babies. And in fact, what was being studied was how fast the radio iodine crossed into the placenta.

AMY GOODMAN: Where was this?

EILEEN WELSOME: At Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

AMY GOODMAN: And what happened to these women?

EILEEN WELSOME: They had all kinds of ailments, skin diseases, cancer, blood disorders, some of their offspring, their children that they were carrying at the time of this experiment died of cancer. And very strange cancers at young ages.

AMY GOODMAN: Were there any whistle blowers among the doctors and nurses?

EILEEN WELSOME: There was none whatsoever. The doctors closed ranks and considered this worthwhile science, and something they were doing to protect the country.

AMY GOODMAN: What about patients brought into the basement of the hospital and experimented on in the middle of the night, where was this?

EILEEN WELSOME: This was an experiment that was done in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was another one of these hybrid experiments that was half medical, half military. And in many cases, that's the problem with hybrid experiments. Often times, what's medically good for the patient is not militarily the best experiment. So these studies were done with cancer patients. They were told it would help their cancer. What the doctors were looking at was trying to figure out in the event of an atomic bomb detonation, how long could soldiers fight?

AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Eileen Welsome. Her series came out in the Albuquerque Tribune and she turned it into a book, the Plutonium Files. Your expose came out under the Clinton years. President Clinton set up an advisory committee on human radiation experiments, which did its own digging into radiation programs. Remarkably enough, the report, the final report, came out on October 3, 1995, the same day as the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case. I don't remember seeing the results being reported.

EILEEN WELSOME: It was really unfortunate, because everybody in the country was focused on O.J. Simpson and --

AMY GOODMAN: Or was it timed right? Because let's remember every day people were waiting to the Simpson verdict, so it clearly was not beyond the government commission to understand the attention of the nation was focused elsewhere.

EILEEN WELSOME: I hadn't thought about that, Amy. It's simply a possibility.

AMY GOODMAN: So the results came out anyway?

EILEEN WELSOME: The results came out anyway, and nobody paid attention to it.

AMY GOODMAN: And what were the results?

EILEEN WELSOME: Basically, they confirmed that thousands and thousands of experiments had been done on U.S. Citizens. That the victims were the most vulnerable people in our society: the young, the disenfranchised, the poor, people of color, people who did not know enough to ask questions. In other words, the subjects were not doctor's children or friends of their doctors; they were people who were vulnerable.

AMY GOODMAN: And how many places did this happen in the United States? The school in Massachusetts, the Cincinnati test, Elmer Allen was at the University of California Berkeley, how many sites were these government scientists working in?

EILEEN WELSOME: There were hundreds of sites. There were private hospitals, public hospitals, military installations, orphanages. About any place that doctor was working where they might be able to get a grant.

AMY GOODMAN: Prison?

EILEEN WELSOME: Yes, that was a really, really ugly experiment. A group of prisoners had their testicles eradiated.

AMY GOODMAN: Where?

EILEEN WELSOME: In Oregon mostly. And the purpose was for NASA. They were interested in knowing the effects of space radiation on astronauts.

AMY GOODMAN: And what happened to these prisoners?

EILEEN WELSOME: Many of them that I interviewed were still in prison. They had all kinds of medical problems and cancers and health issues.

AMY GOODMAN: Lawsuits?

EILEEN WELSOME: Many, many lawsuits filed. Some of the families were compensated. The Plutonium patients got an average per family of $400,000. I think that was the largest. And patients at other sites around the country got lesser amounts.

AMY GOODMAN: What about today? Do you think which have learned anything? And as people listen to this, I’m sure there are many who will start to wonder.

EILEEN WELSOME: I think that the way to safeguard yourself, you as a patient or your loved ones as patients, is by asking questions. And the other way to safeguard -- the other way to prevent these things from happening again is to make sure that what we do is open an available to the public. Because openness is a disinfectant and it keeps these kinds of malignant, unethical experiments from happening.

AMY GOODMAN: Yet we have entered an age of perhaps greater secrecy than ever before.

EILEEN WELSOME: That's correct. In fact, I realized as I was doing my book, my intuition told me this was a small window that was closing and I don't think that today I could get some of the documents that I was able to get for this book.

AMY GOODMAN: Soldiers?

EILEEN WELSOME: Thousands of soldiers were used in bomb tests in Nevada.

AMY GOODMAN: How?

EILEEN WELSOME: Well, they were ordered into the blast area within minutes after a detonation. They flew in – Air Force pilots flew into radioactive clouds. They detonated atomic bombs in the Pacific. The soldiers and sailors were then ordered in to retrieve various instruments that were contaminated.

AMY GOODMAN: And then there were not the people who were personally fed the radio isotopes, the kids at the school or the women who were given these vitamin cocktails that were radioactive. But there was the disbursing of radio activity in the air over cities, at schools?

EILEEN WELSOME: That's correct. One of the most famous is the Green Run at the Hanford Reservation.

AMY GOODMAN: In Washington state?

EILEEN WELSOME: In Washington State in which they released radio iodine and the prairie was very hot, but that was one of the controversial findings in this committee report. They did not say or recommend that the government be forbidden from doing this. They basically said you need to have a committee and at some point the documents should be made public. I thought that was one of the worst recommendations that they came out with.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you very much for being with us. What was the biggest revelation for you in this research and looking at the Plutonium Files?

EILEEN WELSOME: The biggest revelation for me was to see how cruel and inhuman these very educated doctors were toward their patients.

AMY GOODMAN: And not telling them?

EILEEN WELSOME: And not telling them.

AMY GOODMAN: And the medical establishment today, is it backing them up?

EILEEN WELSOME: They were when I was doing my research on this book. They still defended these experiments as being important.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Eileen Welsome, thank you for being with us. The book is called “The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War.” Tomorrow on Democracy Now!, we'll be joined by Joyce Mescus, the owner of The Tattered Cover, an independent bookstore in Denver who has been talked about by many booksellers as the one who took on the US Government when police came in to get records of someone who had bought a book in her store. She spent tens of thousands of dollars fighting this case. We're going to talk about what this means this day and age. We're also going to speak with a doctor who has treated soldiers coming back from Iraq.

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The Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children, renamed the Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925, was a mental hospital for "feeble-minded" boys and hosted one of the most infamous science experiments of the twentieth century. Originally a Victorian sanatorium, the institution became a poster child for the American eugenics movement during the 1920s.

Fernald School is the Western Hemisphere’s oldest publicly funded institution serving the developmentally disabled. Reformer Samuel Gridley Howe founded the school in 1848 with a $2,500 appropriation from the Massachusetts Legislature. Under its first resident superintendent, Walter E. Fernald (1887–24), an advocate of eugenics, the school was viewed as a model educational facility in the field of mental retardation. The school includes 72 buildings total, located on 186 acres at 200 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, Massachusetts. At its peak, some 2,500 people were confined here, most of them children. The institution did serve a large population of mentally retarded children, but the The Boston Globe estimates that upwards of half the population tested with IQs in the normal range. In the 20th century, living conditions were spartan or worse; approximately 36 children slept in each dormitory room. Despite widespread reports of physical and sexual abuse, the Fernald School is best known as the site of the 1946–53 joint experiments by Harvard University and MIT that exposed young male children to repeated doses of radiation. Documents declassified in 1994 by the United States Department of Energy revealed the following details:

The experiment was sponsored in part by the Quaker Oats Company.
MIT Professor of Nutrition Robert S. Harris led the experiment, which studied the absorption of calcium and iron.
The boys were encouraged to join a "Science Club", which offered larger portions of food, parties, and trips to Boston Red Sox baseball games.
The club "members" ate iron-enriched cereals and calcium-enriched milk for breakfast. In order to track absorption, several radioisotope tracers were mixed into the meal.
Radiation levels in stool and blood samples would serve as dependant variables.
17 select "members" received iron supplement shots containing more radioisotopes.
Neither the children nor their parents ever consented to participation in a scientific study.
The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, reporting to the United States Department of Energy in 1994, reported on these experiments:

In 1946, one study exposed seventeen subjects to radioactive iron. The second study, which involved a series of seventeen related subexperiments, exposed fifty-seven subjects to radioactive calcium between 1950 and 1953. It is clear that the doses involved were low and that it is extremely unlikely that any of the children who were used as subjects were harmed as a consequence. These studies remain morally troubling, however, for several reasons. First, although parents or guardians were asked for their permission to have their children involved in the research, the available evidence suggests that the information provided was, at best, incomplete. Second, there is the question of the fairness of selecting institutionalized children at all, children whose life circumstances were by any standard already heavily burdened.

A movement for mental health reform ended the admission of children to Fernald in 1972. The buildings and grounds survive as a center for mentally disabled adults, operated by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation. In 2001, 320 adults resided at Fernald, with ages ranging from 27 to 96 years and an average age of 47 years. In a December 13, 2004, article in the Boston Globe, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced that the facility would be closed and the land sold by 2007.

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Sickened Iraq Vets Cite Depleted Uranium
By Deborah Hastings
The Associated Press

Saturday 12 August 2006

New York - 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.

Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done.

Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil.

There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him terrifyingly sick.

In the sprawling bureaucracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs, he has many caretakers. An internist, a neurologist, a pain-management specialist, a psychologist, an orthopedic surgeon and a dermatologist. He cannot function without his stupefying arsenal of medications, but they exact a high price.

"I'm just a zombie walking around," he says.

Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it - thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead.

A shell coated with depleted uranium pierces a tank like a hot knife through butter, exploding on impact into a charring inferno. As tank armor, it repels artillery assaults. It also leaves behind a fine radioactive dust with a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

Depleted uranium is the garbage left from producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and energy plants. It is 60 percent as radioactive as natural uranium. The U.S. has an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of it, sitting in hazardous waste storage sites across the country. Meaning it is plentiful and cheap as well as highly effective.

Reed says he unknowingly breathed DU dust while living with his unit in Samawah, Iraq. He was med-evaced out in July 2003, nearly unable to walk because of lightning-strike pains from herniated discs in his spine. Then began a strange series of symptoms he'd never experienced in his previously healthy life.

At Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C, he ran into a buddy from his unit. And another, and another, and in the tedium of hospital life between doctor visits and the dispensing of meds, they began to talk.

"We all had migraines. We all felt sick," Reed says. "The doctors said, 'It's all in your head.' "

Then the medic from their unit showed up. He too, was suffering. That made eight sick soldiers from the 442nd Military Police, an Army National Guard unit made up of mostly cops and correctional officers from the New York area.

But the medic knew something the others didn't.

Dutch marines had taken over the abandoned train depot dubbed Camp Smitty, which was surrounded by tank skeletons, unexploded ordnance and shell casings. They'd brought radiation-detection devices. The readings were so hot, the Dutch set up camp in the middle of the desert rather than live in the station ruins.

"We got on the Internet," Reed said, "and we started researching depleted uranium."

Then they contacted The New York Daily News, which paid for sophisticated urine tests available only overseas.

Then they hired a lawyer.

Reed, Gerard Matthew, Raymond Ramos, Hector Vega, Augustin Matos, Anthony Yonnone, Jerry Ojeda and Anthony Phillip all have depleted uranium in their urine, according to tests done in December 2003, while they bounced for months between Walter Reed and New Jersey's Fort Dix medical center, seeking relief that never came.

The analyses were done in Germany, by a Frankfurt professor who developed a depleted uranium test with Randall Parrish, a professor of isotope geology at the University of Leicester in Britain.

The veterans, using their positive results as evidence, have sued the U.S. Army, claiming officials knew the hazards of depleted uranium, but concealed the risks.

The Department of Defense says depleted uranium is powerful and safe, and not that worrisome.

Four of the highest-registering samples from Frankfurt were sent to the VA. Those results were negative, Reed said. "Their test just isn't as sophisticated," he said. "And when we first asked to be tested, they told us there wasn't one. They've lied to us all along."

The VA's testing methodology is safe and accurate, the agency says. More than 2,100 soldiers from the current war have asked to be tested; only 8 had DU in their urine, the VA said.

The term depleted uranium is linguistically radioactive. Simply uttering the words can prompt a reaction akin to preaching atheism at tent revival. Heads shake, eyes roll, opinions are yelled from all sides.

"The Department of Defense takes the position that you can eat it for breakfast and it poses no threat at all," said Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Resource Center, which helps veterans with various problems, including navigating the labyrinth of VA health care. "Then you have far-left groups that ... declare it a crime against humanity."

Several countries use it as weaponry, including Britain, which fired it during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

An estimated 286 tons of DU munitions were fired by the U.S. in Iraq and Kuwait in 1991. An estimated 130 tons were shot toppling Saddam Hussein.

Depleted uranium can enter the human body by inhalation, the most dangerous method; by ingesting contaminated food or eating with contaminated hands; by getting dust or debris in an open wound, or by being struck by shrapnel, which often is not removed because doing so would be more dangerous than leaving it.

Inhaled, it can lodge in the lungs. As with imbedded shrapnel, this is doubly dangerous - not only are the particles themselves physically destructive, they emit radiation.

A moderate voice on the divisive DU spectrum belongs to Dan Fahey, a doctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley, who has studied the issue for years and also served in the Gulf War before leaving the military as a conscientious objector.

"I've been working on this since '93 and I've just given up hope," he said. "I've spoken to successive federal committees and elected officials ... who then side with the Pentagon. Nothing changes."

At the other end are a collection of conspiracy-theorists and Internet proselytizers who say using such weapons constitutes genocide. Two of the most vocal opponents recently suggested that a depleted-uranium missile, not a hijacked jetliner, struck the Pentagon in 2001.

"The bottom line is it's more hazardous than the Pentagon admits," Fahey said, "but it's not as hazardous as the hard-line activist groups say it is. And there's a real dearth of information about how DU affects humans."

There are several studies on how it affects animals, though their results are not, of course, directly applicable to humans. Military research on mice shows that depleted uranium can enter the bloodstream and come to rest in bones, the brain, kidneys and lymph nodes. Other research in rats shows that DU can result in cancerous tumors and genetic mutations, and pass from mother to unborn child, resulting in birth defects.

Iraqi doctors reported significant increases in birth defects and childhood cancers after the 1991 invasion.

Iraqi authorities "found that uranium, which affected the blood cells, had a serious impact on health: The number of cases of leukemia had increased considerably, as had the incidence of fetal deformities," the U.N. reported.

Depleted uranium can also contaminate soil and water, and coat buildings with radioactive dust, which can by carried by wind and sandstorms.

In 2005, the U.N. Environmental Program identified 311 polluted sites in Iraq. Cleaning them will take at least $40 million and several years, the agency said. Nothing can start until the fighting stops.

Fifteen years after it was first used in battle, there is only one U.S. government study monitoring veterans exposed to depleted uranium.

Number of soldiers in the survey: 32. Number of soldiers in both Iraq wars: more than 900,000.

The study group's size is controversial - far too small, say experts including Fahey - and so are the findings of the voluntary, Baltimore-based study.

It has found "no clinically significant" health effects from depleted uranium exposure in the study subjects, according to its researchers.

Critics say the VA has downplayed participants' health problems, including not reporting one soldier who developed cancer, and another who developed a bone tumor.

So for now, depleted uranium falls into the quagmire of Gulf War Syndrome, from which no treatment has emerged despite the government's spending of at least $300 million.

About 30 percent of the 700,000 men and women who served in the first Gulf War still suffer a baffling array of symptoms very similar to those reported by Reed's unit.

Depleted uranium has long been suspected as a possible contributor to Gulf War Syndrome, and in the mid-90s, veterans helped push the military into tracking soldiers exposed to it.

But for all their efforts, what they got in the end was a questionnaire dispensed to homeward-bound soldiers asking about mental health, nightmares, losing control, exposure to dangerous and radioactive chemicals.

But, the veterans persisted, how would soldiers know they'd been exposed? Radiation is invisible, tasteless, and has no smell. And what exhausted, homesick, war-addled soldier would check a box that would only send him or her to a military medical center to be poked and prodded and questioned and tested?

It will take years to determine how depleted uranium affected soldiers from this war. After Vietnam, veterans, in numbers that grew with the passage of time, complained of joint aches, night sweats, bloody feces, migraine headaches, unexplained rashes and violent behavior; some developed cancers.

It took more than 25 years for the Pentagon to acknowledge that Agent Orange - a corrosive defoliant used to melt the jungles of Vietnam and flush out the enemy - was linked to those sufferings.

It took 40 years for the military to compensate sick World War II vets exposed to massive blasts of radiation during tests of the atomic bomb.

In 2002, Congress voted to not let that happen again.

It established the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses - comprised of scientists, physicians and veterans advocates. It reports to the secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Its mandate is to judge all research and all efforts to treat Gulf War Syndrome patients against a single standard: Have sick soldiers been made better?

The answer, according to the committee, is no.

"Regrettably, after four years of operation neither the Committee nor (the) VA can report progress toward this goal," stated its December 2005 report. "Research has not produced effective treatments for these conditions nor shown that existing treatments are significantly effective."

And so time marches on, as do soldiers going to, and returning from, the deserts of Iraq.

Herbert Reed is an imposing man, broad shouldered and tall. He strides into the VA Medical Center in the Bronx with the presence of a cop or a soldier. Since the Vietnam War, he has been both.

His hair is perfect, his shirt spotless, his jeans sharply creased. But there is something wrong, a niggling imperfection made more noticeable by a bearing so disciplined. It is a limp - more like a hitch in his get-along.

It is the only sign, albeit a tiny one, that he is extremely sick.

Even sleep offers no release. He dreams of gunfire and bombs and soldiers who scream for help. No matter how hard he tries, he never gets there in time.

At 54, he is a veteran of two wars and a 20-year veteran of the New York Police Department, where he last served as an assistant warden at the Riker's Island prison.

He was in perfect health, he says, before being deployed to Iraq.

According to military guidelines, he should have heard the words depleted uranium long before he ended up at Walter Reed. He should have been trained about its dangers, and how to avoid prolonged exposure to its toxicity and radioactivity. He says he didn't get anything of the kind. Neither did other reservists and National Guard soldiers called up for the current war, according to veterans' groups.

Reed and the seven brothers from his unit hate what has happened to them, and they speak of it at public seminars and in politicians' offices. It is something no VA doctor can explain; something that leaves them feeling like so many spent shell rounds, kicked to the side of battle.

But for every outspoken soldier like them, there are silent veterans like Raphael Naboa, an Army artillery scout who served 11 months in the northern Sunni Triangle, only to come home and fall apart.

Some days he feels fine. "Some days I can't get out of bed," he said from his home in Colorado.

Now 29, he's had growths removed from his brain. He has suffered a small stroke - one morning he was shaving, having put down the razor to rinse his face. In that moment, he blacked out and pitched over.

"Just as quickly as I lost consciousness, I regained it," he said. "Except I couldn't move the right side of my body."

After about 15 minutes, the paralysis ebbed.

He has mentioned depleted uranium to his VA doctors, who say he suffers from a series of "non-related conditions." He knows he was exposed to DU.

"A lot of guys went trophy-hunting, grabbing bayonets, helmets, stuff that was in the vehicles that were destroyed by depleted uranium. My guys were rooting around in it. I was trying to get them out of the vehicles."

No one in the military talked to him about depleted uranium, he said. His knowledge, like Reed's, is self-taught from the Internet.

Unlike Reed, he has not gone to war over it. He doesn't feel up to the fight. There is no known cure for what ails him, and so no possible victory in battle.

He'd really just like to feel normal again. And he knows of others who feel the same.

"I was an artillery scout, these are folks who are in pretty good shape. Your Rangers, your Special Forces guys, they're in as good as shape as a professional athlete.

"Then we come back and we're all sick."

They feel like men who once were warriors and now are old before their time, with no hope for relief from a multitude of miseries that has no name.

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“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
--Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”--

"As you can see, I have an injury myself - not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
--G.W. Bush...After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center; San Antonio, Texas; January 01, 2006--

"The only Americans who have the honor to die for their country in Vietnam are the dumb, the poor, and the black."
--Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Time--

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
By Leuren Moret
August 21, 2004

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as “spectacular ... and a matter of concern.”

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

In simple words, DU “trashes the body.” When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: “I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans’ families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.
http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

Depleted Uranium
The Nuclear War On Iraq
By Tedd Weyman
June 26, 2005

Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, working with Dr. Asaf Durakovic, Tedd Weyman organized and led field studies in Afghanistan and Iraq to measure and analyze uranium contamination of radiotoxic and chemotoxic heavy metals ('depleted uranium,' etc.) from battlefield weapons.

The use of uranium in non fissile-penetrating weapons and bunker busters are effectively nuclear weapons, Weyman reports. It is known world wide, he says, that DU weapons have long-term implications that, right now corporations and governments are hiding. But Weyman cautions, "If you don’t have a moral objection [to using DU on another nation], you might have a pragmatic objection which might be the liabilities that a nation faces for permanently contaminating another nation’s environment...Uranium contamination in Iraq will last for millions of years. So the liabilities are very significant when you have every nation that was on the receiving end and every soldier on the sending end contaminated." Weyman spoke in Rochester, June 26, 2005 at an event hosted by a coalition of Rochester peace groups. transcript Special thanks to Jim Barlow.

Depleted Uranium
The Nuclear War On Iraq
By Tedd Weyman
Part I Interview
http://www.snowshoefilms.com/depleteduranium.html

Other Sources:

Depleted Uranium Video 1
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/video/Peterson-1.WMV

Depleted Uranium Video 2
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/video/Peterson-2.WMV

Depleted Uranium Video 3
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/video/Peterson-3.WMV

Depleted Uranium Video 4
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/video/Peterson-4.WMV

Depleted Uranium Video 5
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/video/Peterson-1.WMV

Beyond Treason - Depleted Uranium
This extremely powerful 89 minute film presents comprehensive documentation from United States Government archives of a massive cover-up, including military and civilian experimentation, dating back over 60 years.
Hear the testimony of experts and of United States military veterans who demand answers to questions that the Department of Defense will not address.
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.cerebellumink.com/fvideo/beyond_treason.php

Port Hope Radiobiological Studies Project 2005
The Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee (PHCHCC) and Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC)
http://www.porthopehealthconcerns.com/radiobiological_studies.htm

Conferences on DU Weapons
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107.htm

General Information on Depleted Uranium
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107a.htm

Organizations
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107b.htm

Campaigner Tools
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107c.htm

DU News
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107d.htm

Links on Depleted Uranium Weapons
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107e.htm

Science: Physics & Medicine on DU Weapons
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107f.htm

Legal Aspects: Abolition of Illegal DU/Uranium Weapons
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107g.htm

They did it in IRAQ
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107h.htm

They did it in Afghanistan
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107i.htm

They did it in USA & Puerto Rico
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107j.htm

Gulf War Syndrome
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107k.htm

Balkan War Syndrome
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107l.htm

They plan to do it again
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107m.htm

UNO, WHO, UNEP, UNHCR & IAEA
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107n.htm

Environmental Aspects of Depleted Uranium
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107o.htm

Uranium Mining
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107p.htm

Production, Test Sites & Storage of DU Weapons
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107q.htm

Uranium-238 Radon: Biodistribution & Health Effects
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107r.htm

Various Links on DU
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book107s.htm

Science Or Science Fiction? Facts, Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/diss.html#DUMYTHS

DU Fact Sheet WHO
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs257/en

UK Ministry of Defense on DU
http://www.mod.uk/issues/depleted_uranium/du_research/health_source.htm

Special Issue Depleted Uranium Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
http://tinyurl.com/2egz3f

US military 'recognizes' its own regulations on DU
Will it now comply with environmental and health care mandates for both US and Iraq?
April 01, 2005
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_regs.html

Silent WMDs - Effects Of Depleted Uranium
By Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India
February 29, 2004
(PDF Document)
http://traprockpeace.org/bhagwat_du_29feb04.pdf

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan
Question 11. What Does The U.S. Government Know About Depleted Uranium?
November 25, 2003
By Leuren Moret
(PDF Document)
http://traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

US media censor uranium weapons stories
Depleted uranium turns to poison gas
By Bob Nichols
May 27, 2005
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/052705nichols.html
(PDF Document)
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/05-27-05_Nichols.pdf

Depleted Uranium: Lessons in "Humanitarian" and Other Warfare
By Jeremy R. Hammond
June 02, 2005
http://tinyurl.com/ayzbg

US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal'
By Neil Mackay
March 30, 2003
http://www.sundayherald.com/32522

WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq
Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk
By Rob Edwards
February 22, 2004
http://www.sundayherald.com/40096

Depleted Uranium Kills : A Death By Slow Burn
How America Nukes Its Own Troops
The Horrible Truth About U.S. Military's Use of Depleted Uranium (DU)
http://www.barremore.net/depleted-uranium-kills.html

Depleted Uranium Resources and Links
http://www.barremore.net/depleted-uranium-kills.html#resources

Afghanistan
The Silent Genocide from America
By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
(PDF Document)
http://www.afghandufund.org/miraki_silent_genocide.pdf

Baghdad Boils
Horrific Skin Disease Afflicting Soldiers In Iraq
KTVU
By John Fowler
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.ktvu.com/video/4447116/detail.html

Depleted Uranium weapons in 2001-2002
http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm
(PDF Document)
http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/pdfs/DU012v12.pdf

Legacy of Treason
Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity
By Alok O'Brien
March 06, 2006
http://www.byronchild.com/arts48.htm
(PDF Document)
http://www.byronchild.com/du.pdf

Hazards of suspected Uranium weapons in the proposed war on Iraq
Updating Depleted Uranium weapons 2001-2002
Mystery metal nightmare in Afghanistan, Jan 2002
By Dai Williams
September 22, 2002
(PDF Document)
http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/pdfs/Uhaziraq1.pdf

Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness
Why Has Our Military Refused to Show This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq?
U.S. Army Training Video
Between October and December 1995, the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium (DU) Project completed a series of training videos and manuals about depleted uranium munitions. This training regimen was developed as the result of recommendations made in the January 1993 General Accounting Office (GAO) report, "Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination."
The training materials were intended to instruct servicemen and women about the use and hazards of depleted uranium munitions. In addition, the training regimen included instructions for soldiers who repair and recover vehicles contaminated by depleted uranium.
Throughout 1996, these videos sat on a shelf, while U.S. soldiers continued to use and work with depleted uranium munitions. In June 1997, Bernard Rostker, The Department of Defense (DoD) principle spokesperson for their investigation of Gulf War hazardous exposures, stated that the depleted uranium safety training program would begin to be shared by a limited number of servicemen and women in July 1997.
Still Today the vast majority of servicemen and women in the U.S. military, and likely in the armed forces of other countries which are developing or have obtained depleted uranium munitions, are unaware of the use and dangers of depleted uranium munitions, or of the protective clothing and procedures which can minimize or prevent serious short-term exposures.
(Windows Media Presentation)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm

Depleted Uranium, Gulf War Syndrome
The Meria Heller Show
http://www.meria.net
Interview Peter Kawaja
http://www.againstthegrain.info
August 23, 2006

Depleted Uranium - The Ultimate Dirty Bomb
Dr. Doug Rokke
October 21, 2006
http://tinyurl.com/ynsy2d
(YouTube Video)

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Learn About Depleted Uranium From The US Army's Expert on Depleted Uranium (DU)
Nuclear Holocaust and The Politics of Radiation
By Dr. Doug Rokke
Spangenberg Theatre, Gunn High School, Los Altos, California
April 21, 2003
(MP3 Format
http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/pauldivin@yahoo.com/2190-1-20060412-Doug-Rokke-21apr03.mp3

Silent WMDs - Effects Of Depleted Uranium
By Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India
February 29, 2004
(PDF Document)
http://traprockpeace.org/bhagwat_du_29feb04.pdf

Poison DUst
Poison Dust looks at a group of veterans who have all been the victim of serious and similar health problems since returning home from the war. The director attempts to show that a chemical weapon used by the American military is responsible for the illnesses and disorders.
The story of young soldiers who thought they came home safely from the war, but didn't. Of a veteran's young daughter whose birth defect is strikingly similar to birth defects suffered by many Iraqi children. Of thousands of young vets who are suffering from the symptoms of uranium poisoning, and the thousands more who are likely to find themselves with these ailments in the years to come. Of a government unwilling to admit there might be a problem here. Filmmaker Sue Harris skillfully weaves the stories of these young veterans with scientific explanations of the nature of "DU" and its dangers, including interviews with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, New York Daily News reporter Juan Gonzalez, noted physicist Michio Kaku, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Dr. Helen Caldicott and Major Doug Rokke- the former U.S. Army DU Project head.
Every American who cares about our troops should watch this film. Everyone who cares about the innocent civilians who live in the countries where these weapons are used should watch this film. And everyone who cares about the hatred of Americans that may result from the effects of our government's actions in using these weapons, should watch this film. Is there a cover-up?
Directors Sue Harris
2005
http://www.lightyear.com/movies/Poison%20Dust.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Poison-Dust-Michio-Kaku/dp/B000C3H4OA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477067
(Google Video)

&hl=en

American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I: “Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity,”
http://www.americanfreepress.net/depleted_uranium.html
Part II: “Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,”
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: “Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,”
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: “Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI’s Will Come Home To A Slow Death,”
http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2004
http://www.worlduraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

“Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War” by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Johnny Got a Gun - Protest Song
By Johnny's Dad
Uranium Weapon Anthem
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/5801.php

Silent WMDs - Effects Of Depleted Uranium
By Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India
February 29, 2004
(PDF Document)
http://traprockpeace.org/bhagwat_du_29feb04.pdf

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan
Question 11: What Does The U.S. Government Know About DU?
By Leuren Moret
November 25, 2003
(PDF Document)
http://www.traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

Our gift to Iraq
July 10: It's cheap, it's almost twice as heavy as lead and it's splendid for shells. Let's hear it for depleted uranium says AL
Kennedy.
The issue explained
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,994981,00.html

Depleted uranium
April 25: Soldiers returning from the Gulf will be tested for depleted uranium. Alok Jha explains what the metal is and the dangers associated with it.
Gulf war veterans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,943633,00.html

Uranium hazard prompts cancer check on troops
April 25: MoD heeds warning from scientists despite reassurances from Hoon on radiation risk.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,943340,00.html

Study plays down cancer fears over Gulf weapons
May 23 2001: British scientists yesterday played down fears of cancer from weapons made of depleted uranium.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,495028,00.html

Troops not told of shells' toxic risk
February 8 2001: The government admits that thousands of British troops serving in Kosovo were placed at risk from the deadly effects of depleted uranium.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,435238,00.html

Scientists urge shell clear-up to protect civilians
April 17: Royal Society spells out dangers of depleted uranium.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,938413,00.html

Risks from DU 'insignificant'
March 14 2001: The environmental risks from contamination by depleted uranium ammunition used in the war in Kosovo are insignificant, a United Nations report concluded yesterday, but its authors also said that they remained unsure about the long-term health consequences of DU.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,451400,00.html

Key documents
Ministry of Defence depleted uranium page
http://www.mod.uk/index.php3?page=2440

The MoD's depleted uranium documents (pdf files)
http://www.mod.uk/index.php3?page=2442

Interactive
What's going on?
An interactive guide to depleted uranium weapons.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uranium/flash/0,7365,420455,00.html

Online debate: read what the experts said
Guardian defence expert Richard Norton-Taylor, Malcolm Hooper, emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at Sunderland University
http://talk.guardianunlimited.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee7dbf0
Terry Gooding of the Gulf War Veterans' association debated the issues around the depleted uranium controversy.
http://www.editor.uk-gwvn.desert-storm.com

Depleted uranium
Medical tests will be carried out on tens of thousands of Gulf and Balkan military veterans to check for possible contamination caused by depleted uranium shells used by British and allied forces. We explain why.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,419882,00.html

The civilian reaction
While Serbs are understandably concerned about contamination from depleted uranium, says the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, some Kosovo Albanians believe the reports are part of "a Serb conspiracy to force NATO troops out".
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?archive/bcr/bcr_20010110_1_eng.txt

Why depleted uranium is the tank buster's weapon of choice
May 18 2000, analysis: The use of depleted uranium weapons is again causing concern, writes David Hambling.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,419936,00.html

Google Search - Depleted Uranium
http://tinyurl.com/mf84t

Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq: An Overview
By Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi
August 03, 2006
(PDF Document)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/DU-Azzawi.pdf

Current Issues - Depleted Uranium Weapons in the Gulf Wars (1991, 2003)
September 12, 2006
http://www.wise-uranium.org/dissgw.html

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Iraqis blame U.S. depleted uranium for surge in cancer
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070723/69509899.html

19:20 | 23/ 07/ 2007

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CAIRO, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's environment minister blamed Monday the use of depleted uranium weapons by U.S. forces during the 2003 Operation Shock and Awe for the current surge in cancer cases across the country.

As a result of "at least 350 sites in Iraq being contaminated during bombing" with depleted uranium (DU) weapons, Nermin Othman said, the nation is facing about 140,000 cases of cancer, with 7,000 to 8,000 new ones registered each year.

Speaking at a ministerial meeting of the Arab League, she also complained that many chemical plants and oil facilities had been destroyed during the two military campaigns since the 1990s, but the ecological consequences remain unclear.

"Our ministry is fledgling, and we need international support; notably, we need laboratories to better monitor air and water contamination," she said.

The first major UN research on the consequences of the use of DU on the battlefield was conducted in 2003 in the wake of NATO operations in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Montenegro. The UN Environment Program (UNEP) said in its report after the research that DU poses little threat if spent munitions are cleared from the ground.

"Health risks primarily depend on the awareness of people coming into contact with DU," UNEP writes in its 2004 brochure "Depleted Uranium Awareness."

No major clean-up or public awareness campaigns have been reported in Iraq.

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http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/141057/index.php

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Hawaiian Islands are Contaminated with with Ballistic Uranium

Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands.
Army admits to the contamination of Hawaiian islands with depleted uranium spotting rounds on Schofield Barracks, O'ahu and Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai'i Island. Help us save paradise from this most toxic substance.

Public comment to U.S. Army SEIS deadline Oct. 30, 2007
Email Army at PublicComments (at) aec.apgea.army.mil
Hawaii Tourism Authority at info (at) hawaiitourismauthority.org

(Hawaii) Depleted uranium (DU) is stored in Hawai'i under the Naval Radioactive Materials Permit. The Navy accidentally fired two DU rounds from Pearl Harbor in 1994. The rounds landed somewhere above Aiea and were never recovered. The Environmental Impact Statement of the 25th Infantry Transformation to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team published in 2004 states emphatically that depleted uranium munitions were never part of the Army's arsenal.

Despite this claim spent DU spotting rounds were found at Schofield Barracks, (An army base and live-fire training range on O'ahu), in August 2005. This discovery was not disclosed by the military but through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) instigated by concerned residents of Hawai'i.

In August 2007 the army admits the Pohakuloa Training Area (An army base and live-fire training range on Hawai'i Island) is also contaminated with depleted uranium spotting rounds. There are hundreds and hundreds of these spent DU rounds on these two live-fire training ranges.

Any uranium product used as munitions becomes ballistic once it is fired, launched or dropped. Ballistic depleted uranium contamination is a serious problem in Hawai'i.

Depleted uranium is a toxic radioactive waste product of the nuclear industry that has a half life of over 4 billion years. In other words, DU is radioactive forever.

The military claims that depleted uranium munitions are low level radioactivity and are not harmful to health and environment. The military's claims are false.

The military's talking points are about the solid form depleted uranium, the military never addresses Hawai'i residents' concerns, which is the ballistic form of depleted uranium. When depleted uranium munitions are used in war or artillery practices, these munitions have a devastating effect on public health and the environment.

Once DU munitions are launched, they become ballistic. They catch fire, and on impact they can punch through anything with tremendous force causing trillions of tiny radioactive particles of DU dust to be scattered in the environment and carried in the air.

This is when the real public health problem begins. Once airborne, these vaporized radioactive heavy metal particles can be inhaled or ingested because of radioactive contamination of air, food or water supply.

Many of our U.S. Veterans, serving in combat areas that use DU munitions, are getting sick. Support legislation to test our troops returning from Iraq for depleted uranium.

We must stand up for Hawai'i. We must protect our precious islands and our veterans.

The military live-fire ranges in Hawai'i are radioactive! See www.sbct-seis.org/ (published July 2007, chapter 3 page 7 Depleted Uranium).

We want all live-fire military training stopped in paradise. We want the Stryker Brigade Combat Team to relocate elsewhere.

We want our sacred lands to be cleaned up. Practicing to make war in the land of Aloha is inappropriate.

Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands.

Five million tourists visit Hawai'i every year. Would they stop visiting if they knew how contaminated Hawai'i is?

We are asking for people all over the world who love Hawai'i to help us protect Hawai'i. Write to the U.S Army by October 30 at PublicComments (at) aec.apgea.army.mil

Say no Stryker Brigade in Hawai'i and clean-up depleted uranium contamination on live-fire training ranges.

Also write the Hawai'i Tourism Authority at info (at) hawaiitourismauthority.org with the same request. For more information on the military's contamination of Hawaii see www.protecthawaii.ws or www.dmzhawaii.org .