- Birthdate March 3, 1945.
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I am from a very long line of Quakers (named for Leuren DeCouer, a
French Huguenot who came to the US 200 years ago) and I am
extremely opposed to war, but it has been a long process to
understand the underlying issues of war. Especially, now that I
have worked in two nuclear weapons labs, and also understand that
war benefits a very few and makes them tremendously wealthy at the
high cost of the many and destruction of the environment. War is
obsolete. We can no longer afford to waste natural resources,
economic wealth, and globally harm the health of the environment
and global public health for the purposes of needless war. We need
to live with less so that others can live - and I mean all forms of
life.
Leuren Moret was an expert witness at the International Criminal
Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo. She is an independent
scientist and international expert on radiation and public health
issues. She is on the organizing committee of the World Committee on
Radiation Risk, an organization of independent radiation
specialists, including members of the Radiation Committee in the EU
parliament, the European Committee on Radiation Risk and she
is an environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley.
Ms. Moret earned her BS in geology at U.C. Davis in 1968 and her MA
in Near Eastern studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. She has
completed all but her dissertation for a PhD in the geosciences at
U.C. Davis. She has traveled and conducted scientific
research in 42 countries. She contributed to a scientific
report on depleted uranium for the
United Nations sub commission investigating the illegality of
depleted uranium munitions. Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan
Project scientist and retired insider at the Livermore Lab, who is
an expert on radioactive fallout and rainout, has trained her on
radiation issues.
Leuren Moret has conducted research concerning the impact on the
health of the environment and global public health from atmospheric
testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has
helped collect and measure radiation in 6000 baby teeth from
children living around nuclear power plants, and helped The State
of Louisiana (USA) pass the first state depleted uranium bill for
mandatory testing of soldiers.
Articles she wrote on DU were translated into Indian languages and
increased awareness of and concern about DU in India. Her
article "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear
War" in the June 2004 World Affairs Journal, and was translated
at the request of the Kremlin for distribution throughout the
Russian government. The Lone Star Iconoclast, hometown
newspaper of President Bush, interviewed her for a series of
interviews, " Depleted Uranium? A Scientific Perspective",
which are now attached to US Congressman McDermott's 2005 depleted
uranium bill HR 2410 in the US Congress.
Her City of Berkeley 2003 resolution banning weapons in space was
followed by a Space Preservation Treaty Resolution adopted by seven
sister cities in British Columbia, Canada, contributing to Prime
Minister Paul Martin's decision in February 2005 to abandon his
secret agreement with President Bush to allow NMD in Canada.
Her research on divestment of pension funds from US weapons
manufacturers was discussed on a Vancouver radio station in April
2005. The interview helped to make divestment, of $4.6
billion (in 251 US weapons manufacturers) in British Columbia (BC)
pension funds, an issue for the May 2005 election platform in
BC.
Leuren Moret is a Livermore nuclear weapons lab whistleblower, an
Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, and testifies
as a depleted uranium expert in the new documentary film Beyond
Treason.
http://www.beyondtreason.com
Leuren Moret Testimony.
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-ICT13dec03.htm
Best Photos:
LIFE photoessay:
The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm
http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html
Iraq: babies, children, adults exposed to depleted uranium, and
Sandstorm April 26, 2005
http://www.zlocinac.org/du_effects
Best book:
Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of
Depleted Uranium
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html
Best DU Conference:
World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference
Hamburg, October 2003
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de
Best articles:
"Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs,
dirty missiles, dirty bullets: A death sentence here and
abroad"
"Washington's secret nuclear war"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Secret-Nuclear-War14sep04.htm
(#4) High
Uranium Levels Found in Troops and Civilians.
PROJECT CENSORED 2005
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/4.html
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