Used_in_Iraq

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Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict: Specific Conflicts: Iraq (317)
Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict: Weapons: Nuclear: Proliferation: Middle East: Iraq (3)
Society: Military: Veterans: Issues: Health: Gulf War Illness (19)

Depleted Uranium - Silent Genocide to Haunt Perpetrators - Provides collection of links on the effects of DU in Iraq and elsewhere.
Depleted Uranium in the Persian Gulf War - Collection of articles depicting the usuage of Depleted Uranium tipped weapons during the Persian Gulf War.
Environmental Pollution Resulting from the Use of Depleted Uranium Missiles during the Aggression against Iraq - Study submitted by the government of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations.
Environmental Ruin in Iraq - Iraq Action Coalition information on the effects of the sanctions and military war on the environment. Provides information on depleted uranium.
Gulf War Shells Could be Causing Children's Cancers - An increase in rates of cancer in children born in Iraq has led to fears that weapons used in the Gulf War may in some way be responsible. BBC News.
South Movement No Nukes - Depleted uranium in Iraq: dead children and sick soldiers.
UNHCR: Human Rights and Toxics: Depleted Uranium and the Gulf War - Official evidence from the International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project that the US did use Depleted Uranium in the gulf war and that "Scientific studies indicate if as much as one small particle (<5 microns in diameter) enters the lungs, the lungs and surrounding tissue will be exposed to 270 times the radiation permitted for workers in the radiation industry."
Uranium Weapons 2001-2003 Hazards for Iraq - Suspected uranium warheads in US hard target guided weapons verified by US Patents. Provides analysis of collected studies and public domain sources.
Discounted Casualties - The human cost of depleted uranium. People exposed to depleted uranium and other toxic substances during the Gulf War are now tormented by leukemia and a whole array of chronic disorders. Chugoku Shimbun. (April 3, 2000)
Does Iraq's Depleted Uranium Pose a Health Risk? - Key points of a literature review. The Lancet. (February 28, 1998)
Pentagon Poison: The Great Radioactive Ammo Cover-Up - Rounds made of depleted uranium have exposed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of G.I.s to radiation without warning -- here's evidence the army knew the danger. [The Nation Online] (May 26, 1997)