Depleted Uranium
How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU WeaponsSecond Edition
Selections compiled and edited by the Depleted Uranium Education Project
International Action Center
New York CityIn May, 1997, the International Action Center published a book of essays and lectures on depleted uranium: the contamination of the planet by the United States military. In addition to exposing the deadly duplicity of the Department of Defense, the book documents the genocide of Native Americans and Iraqis by military radiation, the connection between depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, the underestimated dangers from low-level radiation, the legal ramifications of DU Production and Use, and the growing movement against DU.
The Table of Contents is provided below. Some of the articles and lectures are found in their entirety on this website. Others are excerpted.
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What Government Documents Admit and What the Government is Telling Us
Acknowledgments
Biographies of the Authors (full text)
Section I: Introduction and Call to Action Against DU
2. Ban Depleted Uranium Weapons (excerpt)
By Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark3. A New Kind of Nuclear War (excerpt)
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility4. International Appeal to Ban DU (full text)
Section II: How DU Weapons Harmed Gulf War Veterans
5. Collateral Damage: How U.S. Troops Were Exposed (excerpt)
By Dan Fahey, Gulf War Syndrome activist researching DU use in the Gulf regionSection III: The Politics of War and the Pentagon's Coverup
8. A Tale of Two Syndromes: Vietnam and Gulf War (excerpt)
By John Catalinotto, former organizer, American Servicemen's Union9. Military and Media Collaborate in Coverup of DU (excerpt)
By Lenora Foerstal, N. American Coordinator, Women for Mutual Security; editor, Creating Surplus Population: the Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous PeoplesSection IV: Indigenous Peoples Victimized by Military Radiation
13. Uranium Development on Indian Land (excerpt)
By Manuel Pino, Environmental Activist16. Declaration of the Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Summit (excerpt)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 5-8, 1996Section V: What Risks from Low-Level Radiation?
17. Depleted Uranium: Huge Quantities of Dangerous Waste (excerpt)
By Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNYSection VI: Environmental Cost of Gulf War to Iraquis and Others
21. Gravesites: Environmental Ruin in Iraq (excerpt)
By Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, anthropologist; journalist, WBAI-NYSection VII: Can a Legal Battle be Waged to Ban DU?
26. The Role of Physicians in the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (excerpt)
By Dr. Victor Sidel, Co-president, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; co-editor, War and Public HealthAppendices
Appendix I: Government Documents on DU
Appendix II: Ordnance Containing DU
Appendix III: Locations Involving DU Research, Testing and Storage
Appendix IV: Report from LAKA Foundation, Netherlands
Appendix V: DU Around the World
Appendix VI: International Action Center (full text)
Appendix VII: Organizations and Resources (full text)
Opinions expressed by contributors of this book represent their personal views and are not necessarily those of the organizations involved.
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