Depleted Uranium
How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with
DU Weapons
Selections
compiled and edited by the Depleted Uranium Education
Project
International Action
Center
New York City
In May, 1997, the International Action Center published a book of essays and lectures on depleted uranium: the contamination of the planet by the United States military. In addition to exposing the deadly duplicity of the Department of Defense, the book documents the genocide of Native Americans and Iraqis by military radiation, the connection between depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, the underestimated dangers from low-level radiation, the legal ramifications of DU Production and Use, and the growing movement against DU.
The Table of Contents is provided below. Some
of the articles and lectures are found in their entirety
on the http://www.iacenter.org website. Others are excerpted. Look on http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/mettoc.htm for publication press conferences, information about the formal book signing, and how to order copies of Metal of Dishonor: The Pentagon's Secret Weapon
. Contents
What Government Documents Admit and What the Government is Telling Us
Biographies of the Authors (full text)
Section I: Introduction and Call to Action Against DU
2.
Ban Depleted Uranium Weapons (excerpt)
By Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark
3.
A New Kind of Nuclear War (excerpt)
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founder, Physicians for Social
Responsibility
4. International Appeal to Ban DU (full text)
Section II: How DU Weapons Harmed Gulf War Veterans
5.
Collateral Damage: How U.S. Troops Were Exposed (excerpt)
By Dan Fahey, Gulf War Syndrome activist researching DU
use in the Gulf region
Section III: The Politics of War and the Pentagon's Coverup
8.
A Tale of Two Syndromes: Vietnam and Gulf War (excerpt)
By John Catalinotto, former organizer, American
Servicemen's Union
9.
Military and Media Collaborate in Coverup of DU (excerpt)
By Lenora Foerstal, N. American Coordinator, Women for
Mutual Security; editor, Creating Surplus Population:
the Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on
Indigenous Peoples
Section IV: Indigenous Peoples Victimized by Military Radiation
13.
Uranium Development on Indian Land (excerpt)
By Manuel Pino, Environmental Activist
16.
Declaration of the Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Summit (excerpt)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 5-8, 1996
Section V: What Risks from Low-Level Radiation?
17.
Depleted Uranium: Huge Quantities of Dangerous Waste (excerpt)
By Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Theoretical Physics,
CUNY
Section VI: Environmental Cost of Gulf War to Iraquis and Others
21.
Gravesites: Environmental Ruin in Iraq (excerpt)
By Dr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, anthropologist; journalist,
WBAI-NY
Section VII: Can a Legal Battle be Waged to Ban DU?
26.
The Role of Physicians in the Abolition of Nuclear
Weapons (excerpt)
By
Dr. Victor Sidel, Co-president, International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War; co-editor, War and
Public Health
Appendices
Appendix I: Government Documents on DU (under construction)
Appendix II: Ordnance Containing DU (under construction)
Appendix III: Locations Involving DU Research, Testing and Storage (under construction)
Appendix IV: Report from LAKA Foundation, Netherlands (under construction)
Appendix V: DU Around the World (under construction)
Appendix VI: International Action Center (full text)
Appendix VII: Organizations and Resources (full text)
Opinions expressed by contributors of this book represent their personal views and are not necessarily those of the organizations involved.
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