Thursday, September 30, 2004

Ban Depleted Uranium Weapons!

The following is adapted from a list of links originally collected 2004 by Bay Area scientist Lauren Moret, for those participating in the No Nuke and Anti-War movement (the version used being updated 2006-02).
It has been adapted, expanded, and slightly updated as new material is found (2014-09).
** [link] are to pages at this website containing the original source materials adapted from offline websites.
** [archive.org] & [archive.today] are to backed-up pages in case the original link is taken offline.

Four-part series on DU, 2004 by Christopher Bollyn for "American Free Press" [link]
** Part I: “Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity”
** Part II: “Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,”

"Another US war crime: the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq", 2003-05-29 by Ben Nichols and Joe Lopez [link]

An article by Helen Caldicott warning about DU usage in upcoming Iraq War (2002-10) [link]

Radiation poisoning from Hunter's Point to Iraq (2005-01) [link]

Information compiled by WISE Uranium Project:
** Depleted Uranium Weapons in the Gulf Wars, 1991, 2003 (last updated 20 Jun 2014) [http://www.wise-uranium.org/dissgw.html] [archive.today]
** "Depleted Uranium Processing and Storage Facilities" [http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dfac.html] [archive.org] (updated 2004-10-22)
** "Bibliography: Military Use of Depleted Uranium (DU)" [http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dlit.html] [archive.org] (updated 2004-08-12)
** Depleted Uranium [http://www.wise-uranium.org/indexd.html] [archive.today]

"Contamination of Persian Gulf War Veterans and Others by Depleted Uranium" 1996-07-19 (updated 1999-02-21) by Leonard A. Dietz [http://www.wise-uranium.org/dgvd.html] [archive.today]

Chris Busby, Ph.D., interviewed at IPPNW (Berlin, Germany), 2004-05-08 by Sunny Miller, Director of the Traprock Peace Center [http://www.traprockpeace.org/chris_busby_08may04.html] [archive.org]

Dan Fahey Document Library [http://www.danfahey.com/]

"Death By Slow Burn: How America Nukes Its Own Troops" (2004-04-01) [http://proliberty.com/observer/20030401.htm] [archive.org]

"Department of Transportation rules against secret shipments of radioactive munitions by the Department of Defense", 2005-06-08 from Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action [http://www.gzcenter.org/DOT%20rules%20against%20secret%20radioactive%20shipments.htm] [archive.org]

"New Research Indicates Health Risks from Uranium May Be More Varied Than Reflected in Current Federal Policy; Depleted Uranium from Proposed New Mexico Enrichment Plant May Become Multi-Billion Dollar Taxpayer Liability without a Hefty Financial Guarantee; Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Corporate Options for DU Disposal Risk Long-Term Violation of Health and Environmental Standards, New Analysis Indicates", 2005-02-23 [http://www.ieer.org/reports/du/LESprfeb05.html] [archive.org]

Depleted Uranium Webpage Links from the Low Level Radiation Campaign [http://www.llrc.org/du/duframes.htm] [archive.org] (updated 2006)

"Depleted Uranium and Health: Facts and Helpful Suggestions" by Glen Lawrence, Ph.D. of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY [http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_health.pdf] [archive.org]
Essential information for soldiers and civilians who are at risk for uranium contamination in areas where DU munitions have been used.

Depleted Uranium: Cause and Effect [http://criticalconcern.com/depleted_uranium_cause_effect.htm]

"Depleted Uranium: Devastation at Home and Abroad" by Leuren Moret [http://www.savewarchildren.org/Text/Moret.htm]

"Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets" by Leuren Moret [http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml]

Depleted Uranium Education Project [http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm]

"Depleted Uranium - The Real Dirty Bombs" by Christopher Bollyn (2004-08-27) [http://www.rense.com/general56/dep.htm] [archive.org]

"Depleted Uranium: Trojan Horse of Nuclear War" by Leuren Moret [http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm]

Depleted Uranium Munitions - A Weapon of Mass Destruction [http://www.iraqjournal.org/journals/030330.html]

Depleted Uranium Follow-Up Program Veterans Health Administration [http://www.vethealth.cio.med.va.gov/DUProgram.htm]

Depleted Uranium Kills : A Death By Slow Burn [http://www.barremore.net/depleted-uranium-kills.html]

Depleted Uranium Special [http://www.writers-against-war.org/public/depleted-uranium.html] [Graphic]

Depleted Uranium - The Stone Unturned [http://www.nuclearfiles.org/redocuments/1997/970328-plowshares.html]

Depleted Uranium Munitions  [http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList136/3105566F330BC2ECC1256B66005F8843]

Depleted Uranium Munitions: The Use of Radiological Weapons as a Violation of Human Rights [http://hlp.home.igc.org/docs/depleteduranium.htm]

Depleted Uranium [http://traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_hamburg03.html#veterans]

'Depleted' Uranium and Health Glen Lawrence, Ph.D. [http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_health.pdf]

"Depleted Uranium Coming Home To Roost - Dillon Bill In Connecticut Legislature" by Sepp Hasslberger [http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/13/depleted_uranium_coming_home_to_roost_dillon_bill_in_conn_legislature.htm]

Depleted Uranium from Proposed New Mexico Enrichment Plant May Become Multi-Billion Dollar Taxpayer Liability without a Hefty Financial Guarantee [http://www.ieer.org/reports/du/LESprfeb05.html]

Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act (Introduced in House) H.R. 2410 Rep. Jim McDermott [http://criticalconcern.com/hr_2410.htm]

Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash [http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html]

Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair - -Doug Rokke,Ph.D [http://www.traprockpeace.org/doug_rokke_12july04.html]

Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons fired by U.S. Navy on Washington coast Jan 7, 2003 [http://www.nukewatch.com/du/20030107gz.html]

Depleted Uranium:Wonder Weapon or Toxic Hazard? [http://www.citizen-soldier.org/CS09-uranium.html]

A description of DU
[http://www.balkansyndrome.com/]

Despite Continued Threats, DU Expert Pushes On Dr. Asaf Durakovic, undeterred by death threats and harassment over the past year, continues his fight to break the "conspiracy of silence" surrounding depleted uranium. By Brian Ohkubo Covert, Independent Journalist Thursday, May. 12, 2005.
[http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/1714441.php]

Discounted Casualties - the human cost of depleted uranium [http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/special/index2.html]

"The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children" [http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_iraq.html] German television production (available here as VHS video), shows the US has used radioactive bombs in the current war against Iraq.

Dr. George Hill Speaks Out on Depleted Uranium Not all physicians agree with the Physician for Social Responsibility report on Depleted Uranium. [http://www.criticalconcern.com/dr_hill-on-DU.htm]
Read Dr. Hill's letter to the PSR (.doc)

Dr. George Hill Testimony on the SB6732DU Bill   [http://www.criticalconcern.com/george_hill_testimony_on_du_bill.htm] (New)

Don’t drink the water by Dennis Kyne [http://www.sfbayview.com/033005/dontdrink033005.shtml]

DU Death Toll Tops 11,000 [http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_death_toll.html]

DU - Health Concerns (Military) [http://www.deploymentlink.osd.mil/du_library/health.shtml]

DU Library: Depleted Uranium Information Page (Govt) [http://lii.org/search?goto=024062]

DU Munitions in Okinawa [http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/okinawa_e/index.html]

DU Watch - a source for all kinds of DU information [http://www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/index.htm]

DU - Hysteria or Real Health Threat? by Judy Blyth
[http://www.anawa.org.au/weapons/du.html]

Effects of Depleted Uranium by Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, India [http://www.thepowerhour.com/articles/du_effects.htm]

Evidence Mounts that Gulf War Syndrome is Related to the Use of Depleted Uranium Shells by NATO [http://www.jacksonprogressive.com/issues/kosovo/balkansyndrome010701.html]

Exposing The Myth Of The ‘Casualty-Free War’: Gulf War Syndrome [http://www.americanfreepress.net/11_04_02/EXPOSING_THE_MYTH_/exposing_the_myth_.html]

Fact Sheet on Depleted Uranium U.S. Department of State [http://www.usembassy.hu/docs/uranium.htm]

Former Head Of Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying From Illegal DU Use And Military's Failure To Admit Responsibility [http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/31934.htm]

German language DU Website [http://www.uranmunition.de/]

Gulf War Syndrome - Depleted Uranium [http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du.htm] by American Gulf War Veterans

The Gulf War Battlefield Still "Hot" with Depleted Uranium by Scott Peterson [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer211/211_peterson.html]

The Fabulous Factsheet File [http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/index.html]
Is uranium hazardous? What is plutonium? Find out here.

Heads Roll At The Veterans Administration: Mushrooming Depleted Uranium (DU) Scandal Blamed [http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15334.shtml]

Health and Environmental Effects of 'Depleted' Uranium  Diane Hensel, Ph.D. [http://www.traprockpeace.org/diane_henshel.html]

Health hazards of depleted uranium munitions [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/policy/cur_du.htm]

Horror of USA's depleted Uranium [http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050429121615724]

If Depleted Uranium is Safe, Let Them Prove It  Congressman Jim McDermott May 11, 2005 http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp050517.shtml

Immediate Action Required on Depleted Uranium (a primer for the beginner) By Doug Rokke, Ph.D. [http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=137&num=16946]

International Action Center [http://www.iacenter.org/]

International Depleted Uranium Study Team [http://www.idust.net/]

Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium  [http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410191947-1213-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia]

Japan may be Next Victim of Depleted Uranium in Iraq, Claims DU Expert  [http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1317/index.php]

Letter from Leuren Moret to Congressman McDermott [http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-Gen-Groves21feb03.htm]

Louisiana - 1st State to Pass DU Bill [http://www.criticalconcern.com/Louisiana_DU_Bill.htm]

Low Level Radiation Campaign [http://www.llrc.org/] Researching the low level effects of ionising radiation

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

Military Toxics Project [http://www.miltoxproj.org/]

National Gulf War Resource Centre [http://www.ngwrc.org/Issues.cfm?NewsTopicID=8]

Nationwide campaign against secret shipments of radioactive ammunition announced  Nov 21, 2003 [http://www.gzcenter.org/NavyDU.htm]

"Ode To Nuha - US Depleted Uranium Takes Another" by Rana El-Khatib [http://www.rense.com/general57/urani.htm]

"Our Tools of War, Turned Blindly Against Ourselves" by Rob Nixon   [http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i24/24b00701.htm]

"The Queen's Death Star: Depleted Uranium, Measured in British Atmosphere From Battlefields in the Middle East", 2006-02-26 by Leuren Moret [http://www.venusproject.com/ethics_in_action/Depleted_Uranium_British.html] [archive.org]

Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home  by Bob Nichols [http://www.sfbayview.com/110905/radioactivetank110905.shtml]

Radioactive Wounds of War [http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605A.shtml]

Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq  [http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html]

"Environmental Exposure Report - Depleted Uranium in the Gulf II" (2000-12-13)
[http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/] [archive.org]

Research Report Summaries on Depleted Uranium from 1974-1999, conducted at National Laboratories and military labs. [http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabl1.htm#TAB%20L_Research%20Report%20Summaries]

Research Report Summaries on Depleted Uranium from 1974-1999, conducted at National Laboratories and military labs
[http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabl1.htm#TAB%20L_Research%20Report%]

Science of Science Fiction? Facts, Myths and Propaganda In The Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons [http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/pdf/dumyths.pdf]

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y. demands that all veterans of Iraq get checked. Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a former Army doctor and nuclear medicine expert who examined and tested the nine men at The News' request, concluded four of them "almost certainly" inhaled radioactive dust from exploded depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops. [http://www.nydailynews.com/04-05-2004/news/story/180644p-156921c.html]

Soldier's new mission is exposing risk of depleted uranium [http://www.postindependent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040815/VALLEYNEWS/108150002&rs=2] Glenwood Spring CO article on Dennis Kyne

The "Dump Nuclear" Campaign to persuade the UK Government that they should drop this expensive, dangerous and outdated technology. [http://www.dumpnuclear.org]

The Hazard Posed by Depleted Uranium Munitions  [http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/papers/fetter/sags-du.pdf]

Heads roll at Veterans Administration Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed  [http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml]

Karen Parker: Fighting to stop the use of illegal weapons [http://www.awakenedwoman.com/karen_parker.htm]

The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons [http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/]

The Laka Foundation is a documentation and research centre on nuclear energy. It has a good online library section on depleted uranium [http://www.laka.org/indexeng.html]

The National Online - Depleted Uranium - The Silver Bullet  [http://www.tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/du/index.html]

Nuclear Information and Resource Service & World Information Service on Energy  [http://www.nirs.org/]

 The War Against Ourselves: An Interview with Major Doug Rokke  [http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm]

Toxic ammo is tested in fish areas - U.S. Navy uses depleted uranium in coast waters; activists may go to court [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/103402_fife09.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=795]

The Tail of a Bullet -  The Depleted Uranium Issue  Christian Science Monitor
[http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/uranium/index.html?s=lni]

The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm like a growing number of Gulf War veterans, some of whom remain apparently healthy, he has fathered a child with devastating birth defects. [http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html]

Troops In Iraq Will Once Again Be Exposed To Deadly Chemicals Congressman Jim. McDermott  Mar 5, 2003 "I was in Iraq in 1991, and I was there again this year; and the evidence is overwhelming of the impact of what Iraq has suffered from depleted uranium and what we, the United States, are about to suffer." [http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp030305b.shtml]

The United States Used Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons in Iraq [www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=15&q=http://www.sumeria.net/politics/duweapons.html&e=747]

Uranium Medical Research Centre [http://www.umrc.net/] Current and recent developments, published research, conference proceedings, reports

Uranium Wars: The Pentagon Steps Up its Use of Radioactive Munitions  [http://www.cursor.org/stories/uranium.htm]

US Military, President Out of Control -- What Does "Mildly Radioactive" Mean, Anyway? By Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner [http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15814.shtml]

U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire - KING5 Video 11/11/04 [http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_111104WABdepleteduraniumSW.49604608.html]

US says Pacific arms tests use depleted uranium [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19387/story.htm]

U.S. Radiation Sites WA [http://www.prop1.org/prop1/radiated/wa0rept.htm]

"U.S. Army Training Video on Depleted Uranium: Our military refuses to show this training film to our troops in Iraq" [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm] or [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/DU-A28K.WMV] [archive.org]

Use of DU: A Crime Against Humanity by Doug Rokke
[http://prop1.org/2000/du/00du/000413dr.htm]

Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Lingers as Health Concern [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0804-04.htm]

WAC 246-233-010   General licenses -- Source material  [http://www.leg.wa.gov/WAC/index.cfm?section=246-233-010&fuseaction=section]

WAC 246-235-091   Manufacture and distribution of industrial products containing depleted uranium under general license  [http://www.leg.wa.gov/WAC/index.cfm?section=246-235-091&fuseaction=section]

Veterans for Peace Workshop on DU (radioactive munitions), Boston, July 23, 2004 [http://www.traprockpeace.org/vfp_du_july04/   http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0722-03.htm]

Warning of Toxic Aftermath from Uranium Munitions [http://www.truthout.com/docs_03/072303I.shtml]

Warning of uranium contamination risks to NGO staff, Coalition forces, foreign contract personnel and civilians in Iraq  [http://www.umrc.net/UMRC_bulletin_07_Feb_2004.asp]

War's Littlest Victim [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/236934p-203326c.html]

War's Unintended Effects: Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Lingers as Health Concern  [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/iraq2002/133581_du04.html]

Weapons of Mass Deception: What the Pentagon Doesn’t Want Us To Know About Depleted Uranium  [http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062903H.shtml]

Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1101-01.htm]

Weapons of Self Destruction - Is Gulf War syndrome - possibly caused by Pentagon ammunition - taking its toll on G.I.'s in Iraq?  [www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/041115roco04]

What does the US know about DU?  -  Leuren Moret  [http://www.traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf]

What does depleted mean in depleted uranium (DU)? Secondly, is the DU in DU rounds (ammunition) considered naturally occurring radioactive material?  Health Physic Society.  [http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q1281.html]

What happened to the test tube paradigm? Dennis Kyne  [http://www.sfbayview.com/020905/whathappened020905.shtml]

WHO Blocked Depleted Uranium Study by Sepp Hasslberger
[http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/03/05/who_blocked_depleted_uranium_study.htm]

Why are Depleted Uranium Munitions a Local Issue? October 16 at the Public Park across from the entrance to Naval Magazine Indian Island. Douglas Milholland, Port Townsend. [http://www.criticalconcern.com/Why_are_Depleted_Uranium_Munitions_a_Local_Issue.htm]

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

World Information Service on Energy [http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/#DU]

"World is blind to real situation in Iraq: activists", 2006-05-27 [http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=12101] [archive.org]: OSAKA -- An Iraqi journalist and a Japanese human rights activist said the public has a poor idea of the situation in Iraq and warned of an impending health catastrophe as more Iraqis contract cancer from exposure to depleted uranium shells used by the U.S. and Britain.

World Uranium Weapons Conference [http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_hamburg03.html]

* This means that it will go releasing ionizing radiation into the environment, essentially forever. After the Gulf War DU remained suspended in the air above Kuwait City for two years.

[http://www.criticalconcern.com/depleted_uranium.htm]

"Britain used DU in 1950s 'nuclear guinea pig' tests", 2001-05-27 [http://www.robedwards.com/2001/05/britain-used-du-in-1950s-nuclear-guinea-pig-tests.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020075110/http://www.robedwards.com/2001/05/britain-used-du-in-1950s-nuclear-guinea-pig-tests.html]

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