"DISCOUNTED CASUALTIES" - GREAT HIROSHIMA NEWSPAPER SERIES ON DU IMPACTS WORLDWIDE
"Discounted Casualties - the Human Cost of Depleted Uranium" is a comprehensive and exhaustive journalism work by Akira Tashiro in the Hiroshima Newspaper Chugoku Shimbun, published in 2000 yet timely -- a reproduction of the initial page of the online series is below -- You can visit the web site for the series by clicking here.
This is the first false series of articles about DU. It would be nice if the writer would actually correspond and tell us exactly where he learned what he claims to have reported. Were his sources the government of Saddam Hussein when its goal was to get out from under the UN sanctions by painting the US/UK as even worse. The claim of leuekemia and a whole array of chronic disorders is false. I suspect that the author was about as knowledgeable about DU as a recent poster to NoMoreDU who claims to be personally suffering from DU who referred to the following website in these terms "Maybe one of you can understand all this. It is too much for my brain to handle."
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/randrep/du/mr1018.7.chap2.html
The site is a solid discussion of the biochemistry of uranium and other radiological and heavy metal compounds. It doesn't whitewash anything, suggests further studies, many of which were never done (one of which, the testing of troops before and after deployment would destroy claims like those of Gerard Matthew et al, the National Guardsmen from NY who have found that being poster boys for the anti-DU crusade has many perks and who think that there is "gold in uranium" because you would find no difference in the result. This site also extensively discusses the naturally occuring uranium that every single human being has inside their bodies. Since the writer that said this makes no sense to me claims to be suffering from DU, learning that they had natural uranium might completely upset the apple cart.
Roger Helbig
concerned citizen with enough science smarts to ask more, not make decisions in a vacuum - I make no money off of DU - I have no videos to sell, no books to market and I don't go on tour - I also have no connection to the Pentagon in this matter .. being a retired reservist makes just the same as Doug Rokke; he also is a retired reservist, but he tries to make people believe he was a career Army man .. sometimes even claiming to have served 40 years before the Gulf War.
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this page is prefaced --
These are highly contaminating weapons already used in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslovia, affecting civilian populations and troops on all sides of a conflict.
There is no evidence that this statement is true. All actual field investigation by the UN, the UN Environmental Programme in Boznia
http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/BiH_DU_report.pdf
and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Kuwait
www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1164_web.pdf
finds the exact opposite.
The second reference not only examines the radiological consequences at a number of site, but Appendix III contains the results of the deliberate blasting of DU containing sand into the air to see how much is resuspended and how far it travels. Anyone who actually wants to learn about DU and not just believe the myth should read this report
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Roger Helbig's comments are the only thing on this site that make sense. I am a health physicist with over 20 years education/training/experience. Use real science to back up your claims.
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