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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: REFERENCES

1. U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI), Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium Use in the U.S. Army: Technical Report, June 1995, p. 4.

2. Ibid., pp. 10, 24

3. Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.: Daily Report for Executives, "Public Input Sought on Depleted Uranium/DOE to Assess Disposition of 505,000 Tons," February 7, 1996.

4. AEPI, op. cit., p. 94.

5. U.S. Navy, Pacific Missile Test Center Cruise Missile Recovery instruction, COMPMTCINST 8800.1, May 14, 1984, quoted in Bukowski, et. al., Uranium Battlefields Home and Abroad, March 1993, p. 54.

6. U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Operation Desert Storm: Early Performance Assessment of Bradleys and Abrams, GAO/NSIAD-92-94, January 1992, p. 3.

7. AEPI, op. cit., p. 39.

8. AEPI, op. cit., p. A-10.

9. Dunnigan, J., and Bay, A., From Shield to Storm, 1992, p. 294.

10. Ibid., p. 295.

11. Ibid., pp. 295-296.

12. Lopez, D., Friendly Fire: The Link Between Depleted Uranium Munitions and Human Health Risks, March, 1995, p. 3.

13. Lowenstein, p. , "Industrial Uses of Depleted Uranium," photocopy in Bukowski, et.al., Uranium Battlefields Home and Abroad, March 1993, p. 136.

14. Dunnigan, op. cit., pp. 285-286.

15. AEPI, op. cit., p. 78.

16. U.S. Army Armament, Munitions, and Chemical Command, "Depleted Uranium Facts," photocopy in Bukowski, et. al., Uranium Battlefields Home and Abroad, March 1993, p. 97.

17. Bukowski, G., Lopez, D., and McGehee, F., Uranium Battlefields Home and Abroad, March 1993, p. 44.

18. AEPI, op. cit., p. 125.

19. Dietz, L., "Contamination of Persian Gulf War Veterans and Others by Depleted Uranium," July 19, 1996, p. 6.

20. AEPI, op. cit., p. 123.

21. AEPI, op. cit., p. 102.

22. GAO, Early Performance Assessment of Bradleys and Abrams, op. cit., p. 24.

23. Ibid.

24. Dunnigan, op.cit., p. 294-295.

25. U.S. General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, GAO/NSIAD-93-90, January 1993, p. 4.

26. AEPI, op. cit., pp. 78-79.

27. GAO, Army Not Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, op. cit., p. 3.

28. Brewer, N., and Hanchette, J., "Veterans still carry uranium shrapnel from gulf war," Gannett News Service, March 12, 1996.

29. Brewer, N., and Hanchette, J., "Some vets say they have not been monitored for radiation exposure," Gannett News Service, March 12, 1996.

30. Daxon, E. and Musk, J.H., "Assessment of the Risks from Imbedded Depleted Uranium Fragments," U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI), March 25, 1992, p. 1.

31. Ibid., p. 7.

32. GAO, Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, op. cit., p. 17.

33. GAO, Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, op. cit., p. 23.

34. AEPI, op. cit., p. 128.

35. AEPI, op. cit., p. 102.

36. AEPI, op. cit., p. 134.

37. AEPI, op. cit., p. 101.

38. AEPI, op. cit., p. 119.

39. AEPI, op. cit., p. 101.

40. Judd, D., "Current Findings: A Health Survey of 10,051 Ill Gulf War Veterans," presented to Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, November 7, 1995, San Francisco, CA.

41. Headquarters U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command, message 072130Z MAR 91 on "Depleted Uranium Contamination," photocopy in Bukowski, et. al., Uranium Battlefields Home and Abroad, op. cit., p. 93.

42. U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command, "Depleted Uranium Facts," op. cit.

43. Testimony of Dr. Stephen P. Shelton to Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, August 6, 1996, Denver, Colorado, p. 239.

44. U.S. Army Safety Center, Army Accident Report 910711001, September 20, 1991, "Estimated Cost of Damage."

45. Ibid., "Injury Analysis."

46. Ibid., "Injury Analysis."

47. Mishima, J., Parkhurst, M.A., Scherpelz, R.I., and Hadlock, D.E., Potential Behavior of Depleted Uranium Penetrators Under Shipping and Bulk Storage Accident Conditions, Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, PNL-5415, February 1985, p. v.

48. U.S. Army Safety Center, op. cit.: "Weather Data."

49. Dietz, L., op. cit., p. 6.

50. United States Central Command log, "11ACR Fire in Doha: Updates from CENTCOM Forward," July 12, 1991, entry 10.

51. U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, letter from Safety Office Chief to Freedom of Information Act Officer, June 21, 1996, pp. 2-3.

52. Triplett, W., "Passing Gulf War Syndrome to the Next Generation," VVA Veteran, June 1996, p. 17.

53. U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, op. cit., pp. 2, 3.

54. Testimony of Dr. Stephen P. Shelton to Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, op. cit., p. 239-240.

55. AEPI, op. cit., p. 154.

56. AEPI, op. cit., p. 101.

57. AEPI, op. cit., p. 110.

58. Casa, K., "Iraq Embargo Toll Now Surpasses War's Horrors," Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July/August, 1995, p. 105.

59. AEPI, op. cit., p. 126.

60. AEPI, op. cit., p. 91.

61. AEPI, op. cit., p. 96.

62. AEPI, op. cit., p. 4.

63. Letter from Dr. Stephen Joseph, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, to Senator Diane Feinstein, June 5, 1996.

64. AEPI, op. cit., pp. 119-120.

65. AEPI, op. cit., p. A-2.

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