January 5, 2003

U.S. Nuclear Wars, 1945-2002 (a)

Afghanistan 2001 Depleted Uranium (b)

Iraq 1991 Depleted Uranium (b) (c)

Japan 1945 Atomic Bombs

Kuwait 1991 Depleted Uranium (b)

Bosnia 1995 Depleted Uranium (b)

Yugoslavia (Kosovo) 1999 Depleted Uranium (b)

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(a) Summarized from Blum, William, Rogue State B A Guide to the World=s Only Superpower (Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine), 2000. Data after 2000 were added by me.

Also, Caldicott, Helen, The New Nuclear Danger B George W. Bush=s Military-Industrial Complex (The New Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, pp. 147-156.

And, ADemocracy Now!@, WBAI, New York, 01/08/03.

(b) Depleted Uranium (Uranium 238) is a by-product in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

The United Nations estimates that 60,000 pounds of DU now lie on Iraq=s landscape. One gram throws off 12,400 alpha particle per second, each of which, if in touch with the human body, can cause cancer or congenital malformations.