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Invisible War - Depleted Uranium and the politics of radiation
65 Minute Video, Produced by CANAL +
Depleted Uranium
Deadly, Dangerous and Indiscriminate - The Full Picture
by Anne Gut & Bruno Vitale. Pub. by Russell House, Nottingham, 2003.
Axis of Whose Evil?
Depleted Uranium Weapons and Iraqi Children
30 Minute Video, Produced by NO DU Hiroshima, Japan, 2004
Metal of Dishonor
How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers and Civilians with DU Weapons
Edited by John Catalinotto and Sara Flounders of the Depleted Uranium Education Project.
Pub. by International Action Center, NYC, 1999 (2nd Ed.)
ECRR Report
2003 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk
ed. by Chris Busby. Pub. by Green Audit Press, Castle College, Aberystwyth, UK, 2003.
Martin Meissonnier's video documents the use of nuclear waste in US weapons and uses studies conducted by many experts, some listed below, to prove his point. In Kuwait and Iraq, the U. S. used 320 tons of Depleted Uranium. "Shells used in the 1999 Kosovo conflict were tainted with trace amounts of plutonium, neptunium and americium-byproducts of nuclear reactors that are much more radioactive than depleted uranium. (AP, "Pentagon Admits Plutonium Exposure: NATO Shells Used Radioactive Metals," The Capitol Times, Madison, WI, Feb. 3rd, 2001) The Department of Energy (DOE), which controls DU considers (its use) to be "utilization of waste materials." (Discounted Casualties, 2001 The Chugoku Shimbun, by Akira Tashiro winner of the JCJ Prize, Japan's top award for journalistic excellence)
After the Gulf War, Americans celebrated their victory over Iraq believing less than 200 U.S. soldiers had been killed in combat with almost a quarter of them, caused by "friendly fire."
In Fact our casualty is significantly higher. Of the 696,778 U.S. veterans that served in the Gulf War, over 251,000 (36%) have filed medical claims for illness related to the war. Over 8,000 of them have died. The isotope U236 has been found in the organs and fluids of these soldiers. Damacio Lopez, director of the International Depleted Uranium Study Team (IDUST), calls the figure the "largest friendly fire death toll in history." He, like the doctors and scientists and sick U.S. vets and Iraqis you will meet in the enclosed video, believe the cause of their sickness and deaths to be the use of plutonium enriched DU weaponry by the U.S. during the Gulf War.
This information is particularly relevant today as the Bush administration seems determined to go to war with Iraq, again using 'tainted' DU weapons.
During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the multi-national force led by the United States crushed the Iraqi army with overwhelming fighting power. During this short war, the US military lost 148 soldiers in actual combat. Families rejoiced when their victorious husbands, wives, sons and daughters returned home safely. But joy quickly turned to fear when many of those soldiers began complaining of physical problems. Thousands died. Radiation from DU munitions and a variety of chemical toxins had invaded and were destroying their bodies.
Akira Tashiro, senior staff writer for Hiroshima's daily newspaper, The Chogoku Shimbun, spent four months talking to Gulf War veterans, investigating communities near DU factories and firing ranges, and exploring the battlefields of Iraq and Kosovo. His powerful interviews with real people suffering the aftereffects of DU exposure touched the hearts of the Japanese people and won him the JCJ Prize, Japan's highest award for journalistic excellence. Translated into English and posted on his newspaper's homepage, this work attracted 49,000 hits in two months.