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Silent Nuclear War
International Medical Veritas Association

April 18,2006

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     Many shocking reports now indicate that we have been fools thinking that what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan is happening only to the local populations over there. Few of us are even aware that the United States military has been using depleted uranium (DU) in its armaments and that tons of the stuff have been spilled all over the landscape in Bosnia,  Iraq and Afghanistan. Meaning the all powerful anti-human forces that be in the United States and England have found a way to go nuclear right under our very noses and the effects of that have already been spread around the globe, especially in the northern hemisphere.

 The term “depleted” seems to give the impression that DU is
 uranium that does not contain radioactivity any more, which is
 not the case. DU ammunition can cause serious radioactive
 contamination and is no less atrocious than nuclear weapons.
                                                        Dr. Katsuma  Yagasaki

      “Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions and agreements, as well as under the US military law. The continued use of this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international issue” wrote Leuren Moret who has worked at two US nuclear weapons laboratories as a geoscientist.[1]

What we are seeing in reality is an end to the reason of law and order. When presidents of constitutional democracies and the ruling elite behind him take it upon themselves to so blatantly, abandon the law we have both the seeds of anarchy and the deep roots of fascism combining to shape the world’s future in the most nasty of ways possible.

Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition
of a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD).

     It should come as no surprise that the federal government is breaking international laws against the use of such weapons. The culture of the United States government is deeply imbedded with the death and poisoning of its own citizens through vaccines, fluoridated drinking water, dangerous drugs and medical treatments backed with the full authority of the FDA and CDC. As well as poisoning of the food supply with the likes of aspartame and MSG, massive use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, genetically altered foods, and massive use of food preservatives, now the list includes the use of depleted uranium in armaments whose radioactive pollution will go on for a few billion years.

     What you are about to read is a nightmare unmatched in the annals of human history outdistancing perhaps even the rising tide of mercury and the thousands of other toxic chemicals flooding the environment. We now stand threatened from both chemical and nuclear poisons with devastating consequences to public health. Through it all public health officials can only find the time to masturbate with viruses, closing down their consciousness to anything but their pet obsessions with things that often cannot even be proven to exist.

Depleted Uranium armaments are “the
perfect weapon for killing lots of people!”
                            Dr. Marion Fulk

                         Nuclear physical chemist, retired, Lawrence Livermore
Nuclear Weapons Lab and Manhattan Project

     Uranium weapons have been increasingly employed in battle action since their first use by the US and UK forces in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Since then they have been used in the Balkans in the late 1990s, then Kosovo in 2000, in Afghanistan starting in 2002 and continuing into the present, and then in the 2nd Gulf War (GW2) in March and April 2003. The Army began arming tank, artillery and machine gun shells with depleted uranium in the 1980s. The term "depleted" is a misnomer since DU contains about 60% of the radioactivity found in natural uranium.

     Pentagon has estimated that 320 tons of depleted uranium was fired by US and UK units in the first Gulf War. Some experts put the numbers as high as 800 tons. U.S. and British warplanes dropped about 31,000 DU shells of various calibers on Kosovo and Serbia during the 1999 bombing campaign. Approximately 2000 tons or more were detonated in the second gulf war.

350 tons of uranium is equal to about a kilogram of plutonium.
                                                               Dr. Chris Busby

     In principle, using the Atomic Energy Control Board’s (AECB) regulatory limits, we can calculate that 0.1 micrograms of plutonium can overdose one person with maximum safe exposure limits being placed at .56 micrograms maximum full body exposure and .25 micrograms for lung exposure. “Experiments with beagle dogs suggest that about 27 millionths of a gram of insoluble plutonium would be sufficient to cause lung cancer in an adult human being with virtual certainty, with significant risks probably associated with far lower doses,” report International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.[2]  According to the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) 0.1 grams would overdose one million people, a gram ten million, 100 grams one billion people and 600 grams six billion, the entire worlds’ population[3] if those 600 grams were implanted directly into people.

    “A rapid release of one kilogram of plutonium at ground level in dispersible, inhalable form would cause a public health emergency of the first magnitude. Plutonium air concentrations could be on the order of hundreds of micrograms per cubic meter of air at one kilometer from the release site. Individuals breathing this air would inhale enough plutonium to cause cancer with certainty within minutes," said Dr. Edwin S. Lyman of the Nuclear Control Institute.

    The Pentagon has misled the world with claims that its DU is safe. They have lied about depleted uranium no matter how many of their own soldiers get sick and die from it and from the toxic vaccines they administer in mega doses before troops are deployed into war theaters. The Pentagon has maintained that DU shells are safe because they contain only mildly radioactive uranium when in reality; depleted uranium also contains small amounts of plutonium and other highly radioactive elements.[4] Despite the authorities' attempt at concealment, the truth is out. The media has forgotten its responsibilities, and the public remains docile thus the military is contemplating getting away with more murder through nuclear weapons when it contemplates actions against Iran.

     Thus we can begin to understand why Professor Katsuma Yagasaki stated that “The used amount of radioactive atoms of DU weapons dispersed into environment in the real wars was far beyond that of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is estimated that in the First Gulf War, 320 to 800 tons of DU were used, scattering indeed 14,000 to 36,000 times more radiation than in Hiroshima.”

     The Department of Energy has millions of tons of DU and using it in weapons saves the government a fortune on the cost of its disposal. What difference does it make if the use threatens millions with premature and terrible deaths with cancer? Such a terrible question fits like a glove to those who have planned for decades the use of such weaponry. Actually the official party line from the medical and military industrial establishments are simple, there is nothing to worry about from nuclear or chemical poisons, they are safe and you can go back to sleep trusting your children’s future to us.

     The long-term effects from over a decade of DU exposure are emerging in southern Iraq and they are devastating. However, the increased amount of radioactive material used in Afghanistan (3 times greater than in Iraq in 1991) and Iraq in 2003 (6-10 times greater than 1991) will travel throughout a larger area and affect many more people than anyone has imagined. As we will see below the first evidence is in that contrary to the military’s belief that the radiation danger only extends for a few meters around impact points, scientists measured strong increases in radiation 2500 miles away in England within days of the American bombing in Iraq. The Americans are still using these munitions in Afghanistan and are itching to unleash a nuclear firestorm against Iran. Any war the United States fights today will be nuclear because all scenarios include DU armaments some of which contain more than a ton of uranium.[5]

Nuclear power plants are really dangerous facilities put
 in practical use on stipulation that they can “completely seal
 in radiation,” while radioactive weapons commit an impermissible
 crime scattering radioactive materials in the environment.
                                               Professor Katsuma Yagasaki

    Since World War II accumulated radiation has incrementally increased the radiation burden to the global community. Nuclear weapons testing, nuclear power plants, and radiation accidents like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are steadily increasing the radiation contamination of the global environment. We cannot escape exposure because we breathe the air, drink the water and eat food from contaminated soils. Now the American and British governments have taken it upon themselves to increase this nuclear contamination thinking that these supremely powerful armaments will win wars quickly thus saving soldiers’ lives. But these soldiers are the first ones who come down with deadly diseases upon returning home giving us a chilling preview of what is in store for millions who are being exposed, only more slowly.

On impact, uranium penetrators burn fiercely to give an aerosol
of sub micron diameter oxide particles which are largely
 insoluble and remain in the environment for many years.

                                                     Dr Chris Busby

     As much as 70 percent of the projectile can burn up on impact, creating a firestorm of ceramic DU oxide particles. The residue of this firestorm is an extremely fine ceramic uranium dust that can be spread by the wind, inhaled and absorbed into the human body and absorbed by plants and animals, becoming part of the food chain. Once lodged in the soil, the munitions can pollute the environment and create up to a hundredfold increase in uranium levels in ground water, according to the U.N. Environmental Program.

When uranium burns into particles, it will enter human bodies
 ingested with drinking water and food, or inhaled with air. In this case,
 the whole radiation and chemical toxicity will be released in the body.
                                                                             Professor Katsuma Yagasaki

 According to Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki “DU dust-like particles can enter human bodies, and once taken into the body, they will become tens of millions times more hazardous. Newly released data indicate that low-level radiation is more likely to cause biochemical abnormalities than intensive high-level radiation.[6] It is wrong to make light of the hazard of low-level radiation.”[7] DU is a little different then other forms of radioactive material.  It only emits alpha and beta radiation.  A piece of paper will stop it.  So the military feels comfortable lying about its danger. However, when it is in the lungs or elsewhere in the body, it is in contact with living tissue, bombarding that tissue with low level radiation for the rest of your life.  That radiation will lead to cancers, genetic damage, a list of chronic diseases and eventual death.

     Yagasaki continues saying, “One alpha particle passes hundred thousand atoms before it stops, blowing out hundred thousand electrons constituting a molecule. The destruction (ionization) of molecules will damage DNA, or will induce mutation in the cellular structure itself. There will be a great possibility of only one depleted uranium particle causing cancers and organ disorder. With the half-life of DU being 4.5 billion years, there will be almost no change in the rate of alpha emission 10,000 or 100,000 years later. This means once DU is inside the body, one will remain exposed to radiation as long as he/she lives unless it is discharged, while the environment continues to be polluted forever.”

In Afghanistan, where 800 to 1000 tons of depleted uranium was estimated
 to have been used in 2001, even uneducated Afghanis understand the
 impact these weapons have had on their children and on future generations.[8]

    Nuclear war means clouds of fallout raining down on you and your children. Yes, that fallout, which your friendly government said would only travel a few meters in the battlefield, or only far enough to afflict the enemy and unfortunately, our own brave troops. “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.[9]

Physicians in Bosnia are seeing patients present
 for care with three simultaneous malignancies
 something never previously reported in medicine.

     “The military know perfectly well that DU has all these effects, but they want to use it because it wins them the battles. It has actually destroyed tank warfare. Tanks are of no use any more, because they can come down with an A10 with a Gatling gun, fire these cheap bits of nuclear waste, and just wipe them out,” said Dr Chris Busby, Secretary at the European Committee on Radiation Risk and an international expert on low-level radiation.

The United States has fought four nuclear wars, and just this year has science started to show the fallout from these wars showing up far from the battlefields. The Sunday Times Online, on February 19, 2006, reported on a shocking scientific study authored by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan. Below is a graph from that study showing measurements of uranium taken over England, information that had to be pried with legal crowbars to be released. Notice the strong spike in radiation thousands of miles away at exactly the time of the second gulf war.

     After the "Shock and Awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine particles of depleted uranium were captured with larger sand and dust particles in filters in Britain. These particles traveled in 7-9 days from Iraqi battlefields as far as 2400 miles away. The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a few weeks after the beginning of the 2003 campaign, and at one of the 5 monitoring locations, the levels twice required an official alert to the British Environment Agency.

Within nine days of the start of the Iraq war on March 19, 2003,
higher levels of uranium were picked up on five sites in Berkshire.[10]
                                                                   London Times

     This is such earth shattering information that many officials in England were immediately forced to move into denial mode. The Ministry of Defense refused to acknowledge the possibility of any connection between the use of atomic weaponry in Iraq and these readings in England saying the uranium was of a “natural origin” and there was no evidence that depleted uranium had reached Britain from Iraq. Perhaps there was a volcano eruption that went unnoticed or a flyby UFO with a radioactive tail; when it comes to the military any excuse but the truth will do.

     According to Dr. Chris Busby and Dr. Saoirse Morgan, who forced the British government to release the above information[11] published in January of this year. “On the basis of the mean increase in uranium in air of about 500nBq/m3 we use respiration data on standard man to calculate that each person in the area inhaled some 23 million uranium particles of diameter 0.25 microns. As far as we know, this is the first evidence that uranium aerosols from battle use have been shown to travel so far.” In their earth shaking report they make it clear that the “evidence from the present analysis is implicit in the results; i.e. the increases found clearly demonstrate that the uranium particles are capable of long distance travel.”[12]

     Busby and Morgan continue saying, “Despite many pieces of evidence that the uranium aerosols are long lived in the environment and are able to travel considerable distances, this is the first evidence as far as we know, that they are able to travel thousands of miles. The distance traveled from Baghdad to Reading following the wind patterns implicit in the pressure systems at the time is about 2500 miles. Although this transport may be hard to believe at first, the regular desert sand events which occur in the UK should teach us that the planet is not such a large place, and that with regard to certain long lived atmospheric pollutants, no man is an island.”

The U.S. government has not released any information about the levels of radioactivity being observed in the U.S. and the controlled media in Europe and the U.S. has said nothing about the 4 genocidal nuclear wars the United States and it’s British ally have foisted off on the populace of the world.

     Depleted Uranium munitions is one of the greatest depopulation weapons ever deployed and by design is leading to the permanent contamination of the Middle East and Central Asia with radioactive uranium, which destroys the genetic future of the populations living in those regions. It is unrealistic to think that the designers of these munitions have not tested for the reality of the radioactive contamination meaning they must have known that radiation would have been put up high into the atmosphere to be swept around the globe. Radioactive substances have been studied intensively for over five decades and we all grew up with the fear of atomic warfare. Little did we know that the nuclear industry would find a way to use their waste materials profitably creating nuclear weaponry that would haunt the planet virtually forever.

After traveling 2,500 miles if the exposure to the English was
23 million uranium particles it is anyone guess the amount of
fallout that reached the United States. Odds are that everyone in
 the northern hemisphere was contaminated to one degree or another. 

     The American and British governments say depleted uranium is relatively harmless. They also stand behind the use of mercury in medicine and dentistry saying mercury is relatively harmless as well. The list goes on. Be prepared for the CDC to ignore this or when all hell breaks loose and lung cancer cases spike upward you will see them pretend it is another genetic epidemic like they thought autism was for a while. Now they just simply scratch their heads at anything they cannot blame on a virus. It is absolutely pathetic that medical and health officials at the CDC and other international agencies are spending all their resources scaring the heck out of the public about the bird flu and influenza virus, as millions are threatened with nuclear and chemical poisons.  

DU is the stuff of nightmares.
This whole thing is a crime against God and humanity.
                              Dr. Doug Rokke
                                         Army health physicist

     In 1991, Dr. Doug Rokke was assigned to the command staff of the 12th Preventive Medicine Command to clean up some of the mess left after uranium armaments were used. Today, in poor health, he has reactive airway disease, neurological damage, cataracts and kidney problems and blames his health problems on exposure to DU. Dr. Rokke and his primary team of about 100 performed their cleanup task without any specialized training or protective gear. Today, Rokke said, at least 30 members of the team are dead, and most of the others have serious health problems. Rokke said: "Verified adverse health effects from personal experience, physicians and from personal reports from individuals with known DU exposures include reactive airway disease, neurological abnormalities, kidney stones and chronic kidney pain, rashes, vision degradation and night vision losses, lymphoma, various forms of skin and organ cancer, neuropsychological disorders, uranium in semen, sexual dysfunction and birth defects in offspring.

     "Since 1991, numerous U.S. Department of Defense reports have said that the consequences of DU were unknown. That is a lie. We warned them in 1991 after the Gulf War, but because of liability issues, they continue to ignore the problem." Rokke worked until 1996 for the military, developing DU training and management procedures. The procedures were ignored, he said. "Their arrogance is beyond comprehension. We have spread radioactive waste all over the place and refused medical treatment to people . . . it's all arrogance.”[13]

The U.S. Army quietly placed an order for $38 million in
depleted uranium rounds last week, bringing the total order from a
West-Virginia based company to $77 million for fiscal year 2006.[14]

     This would be fine if this all were a fantasy, but the Pentagon uses depleted uranium in its rounds because they say it is extremely effective in penetrating heavy armor. It’s the same kind of consciousness that put poisonous chemicals in our water supplies and toothpaste (fluoride) that we give to our kids, that has the military using armaments that are releasing vast amounts of nuclear material with a half life of only 4.5 billion years. Now if anyone can be accused of playing God it is these people. No language on earth has developed words to express the ultimate in death worship of that kind, which would release poisonous radiation on the earth that will keep moving through the environment and into all living systems for millions of generations to come.

Brent North Sea crude oil was traded at 70.20 dollars a barrel for the
first time on Thursday evening due to simmering tensions of Iran nuke issue.[15]
                                                                               April 14, 2006

     Evil does not quite cover this disgusting travesty of human consciousness. Modern psychology has tragically missed the boat when it comes to warning us about the effects on the mind of the super wealth and power achieved by a few in the past 100 years. Those who doubt that these very same people could have, and would have destroyed the World Trade Centers, should understand how small such a thing was in comparison to blanketing the earth with lethal radiation. If the world allows President Bush to go to war against Iran, humanity will learn a lesson cruel in dimension and scope. We are on the brink, closer than any of us think, and people who are beyond all madness and terrorism are at the helm of the world.

     If there ever was a time for humanity to pour out into the streets in protest its now. No more war, no more use of uranium armaments, and no more big government. The governments that we have allowed to grow to monstrous proportions by their very nature are lessons in uncontrolled destruction. Its not enough to stop Bush now, we have to stop the people and corporations behind him and only the most massive display of our humanity is going to stand a thread of a chance of effecting necessary changes. Darkness greater than anything the earth has known is right around the corner. The peace movement should combine with environmentalists and health activists to raise a human storm never seen before, one strong enough to topple governments who choose the path of insanity over humanity. 

Defense officials said they have no plans to phasing out
the use of DU munitions or a ban on its use.[16]

     According to the Associated Press,[17]  a Pentagon-sponsored team of experts determined in May 2003 that two small trailers were not used to make biological weapons. Yet two days after the team sent its findings to Washington in a classified report, Bush declared just the opposite. "We have found the weapons of mass destruction," Bush said in an interview with a Polish TV station. "We found biological laboratories." Is this the man we trust with the fate of the world, or with anything else for that matter? If we do not stop him and his ‘whole team,’ and make it perfectly clear to the Israeli government as well that nuclear war is not an option against Iran, we will collectively face a possible consequence that will have us being sorry we ever brought our children to this planet. If peace does not rain on earth now it will be war, nuclear war, for that is the only kind of war that will be fought by America and its allies. Depleted uranium nuclear armaments have been classified as conventional weapons so there is no way for American forces to avoid their use.

With little progress in resolving the dispute with Iran through
diplomacy — the option of turning to air strikes is unlikely to go away.[18]
                                               New York Times April 16, 2006         

     Physicians for Social Responsibility examined the risks of a more advanced buster-bunker weapon, and it eerily tabulated the toll from an attack on the underground nuclear facility in Esfahan, Iran. “Three million people would be killed by radiation within two weeks of the explosion, and 35 million people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, would be exposed to increased levels of cancer-causing radiation,” according to a summary of that study in the backgrounder by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

     Although many of the world’s cities have recently experienced the horrors
of terrorism, the damage they have suffered is minuscule compared to what may lie ahead. What if a terrorist organization obtained nuclear weapons asks International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War? Some point to the fact that Iran supports terrorism, which is true, and thus should not be allowed to go nuclear. But there is no larger or greater terrorist organization than the American military and government and the corporations that dominate from behind the scenes.

Throughout the 1950s the military detonated A-bombs
above-ground at the Nevada Test Site, showering
downwind civilian populations with radioactivity.

They are the last people anyone should trust
 when it comes to anything nuclear related.

    This war on terrorism is simply the projection of the greatest terrorists the world has ever seen. Many conspiracy theorists feel that these huge government organizations are actually behind many of the terrorist acts -used by them to provoke widespread fear and fuel their march toward global fascism and the destruction of everything we hold dear. So great is their power and their evil there is little chance they can be stopped. They are so used to doing harm to people that it has become second nature to them. They hardly give it a thought; certainly they are incapable of seeing the wrong in what they do.

     The New York Times printed on April 18, 2006, “When it comes to the fundamental human principles of freedom, liberty and justice, China is in the Dark Ages.”[19] This is an example of the kind of projection, or in this case semi-projection[20] that the American media belts out. America herself has done so many ugly things to its own people and to the world these past five decades and is heading down the slippery slope of fascism. We already know that America hosts the largest prison populations in the world. Freedom, liberty and justice is going down like the Titanic in America and all bets are on for America starting a nuclear war in Iran that will include more than ‘just’ depleted uranium weapons. Fascists and fanatics have to have their wars and some of the greatest ones who have ever lived are at the heads of the governments most involved in the present crisis.