Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 9. August
2005 / Timeline August 9, 2005
Version 3.5
8. August 2005, 10. August 2005
08/09/2005
Amerikansk atombombe eksploderer
over den japanske by
Nagasaki, 1945.
/ American atomic bomb explodes over the Japanese city of Nagasaki,
1945.
/ Américaine bombe atomique explose au-dessus de la ville
japonaise de Nagasaki, 1945.
/ Bomba atómica estadounidense explota sobre la ciudad
japonesa de Nagasaki, 1945.
/ Amerikanischen Atombombe explodiert über der japanischen
Stadt Nagasaki, 1945.
08/09/2005
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).
08/09/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department
of Defense
The Department of Defense announced today plans to award
instrumentation grants totaling $2.42 million to nine tribal
colleges and universities. These grants will be made under the
fiscal 2005 DoD Historically Black Colleges and Universities and
Minority Institutions Infrastructure Support Program. The grants
will enhance programs and capabilities at these minority
institutions in scientific disciplines critical to national
security and the DoD.
08/09/2005
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