Published on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 by the Battle Creek Enquirer (Michigan)
Depleted Uranium is WMD
by Leuren Moret

My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek
in 1895.
He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on
depleted uranium.
I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a
whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty
stuff:

Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass
destruction in
two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50 Chapter 40 Section
2302.

DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague and Geneva
war
conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws and U.S. military law.

Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at
least 400,000
Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the amount released
during
atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs. The U.S.
has
permanently contaminated the global atmosphere with radioactive pollution having
a half-
life of 2.5 billion years.

The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan
and twice in
Iraq since 1991, calling DU "conventional" weapons when in fact they are nuclear
weapons.

DU on the battlefield has three effects on living systems: it is a heavy metal
"chemical"
poison, a "radioactive" poison and has a "particulate" effect due to the very
tiny size of the
particles that are 0.1 microns and smaller.

The blueprint for DU weaponry is a 1943 Manhattan Project memo to Gen. L. Groves
that
recommended development of radioactive materials as poison gas weapons - dirty
bombs,
dirty missiles and dirty bullets.

DU weapons are very effective kinetic energy penetrators, but even more
effective
bioweapons since uranium has a strong chemical affinity for phosphate structures
concentrated in DNA.

DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war - it keeps giving and keeps killing. There
is no way
to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into
other radioactive
isotopes in over 20 steps.

Terry Jemison at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated in August 2004
that over
518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are now on medical disability, and
that 7,039
were wounded on the battlefield in that same period. Over 500,000 U.S. veterans
are
homeless.

In some studies of soldiers who had normal babies before the war, 67 percent of
the post-
war babies are born with severe birth defects - missing brains, eyes, organs,
legs and
arms, and blood diseases.

In southern Iraq, scientists are reporting five times higher levels of gamma
radiation in the
air, which increases the radioactive body burden daily of inhabitants. In fact,
Iraq,
Yugoslavia and Afghanistan are uninhabitable.

Cancer starts with one alpha particle under the right conditions. One gram of DU
is the
size of a period in this sentence and releases 12,000 alpha particles per
second.
Before my grandfather died, he told me that his generation had made a mess of
this
planet. I wonder what he would say to me now I would tell him to see "Beyond
Treason"
(www.beyondtreason.com), a new documentary about the history of treason by the
U.S.
government against our own troops: Atomic veterans, MK-Ultra, Agent Orange and
DU.
After Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals
to be
used as pawns in foreign policy. . ." (from Chapter 5 in the "Final Days" by
Woodward and
Bernstein).

Leuren Moret is an international radiation specialist, with a B.S. degree in
geology from
University of California at Davis, a M.A. degree in Near Eastern studies from
University of
California at Berkeley and has done post-graduate work in the geosciences at
UC-Davis.
She is environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley, Calif.

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