Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
Foreign Policy Journal by David Swanson | Sep 21, 2019 |
A new study shows an association between depleted uranium, used by the US during the Iraq war, and the risk of birth defects in Iraqi children.
In the years following 2003, the US military dotted Iraq with over 500 military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities.
These cities suffered the impacts of bombs, bullets, chemical and other weapons, but also the environmental damage of open burn pits on US bases, abandoned tanks and trucks, and the storage of weapons on US bases, including depleted uranium weapons. Here’s a map of some of the US bases:
Now, the British are said to be planning to send depleted uranium shells to Ukraine to be fired from their Challenger tanks but I’ll end here as I don’t didn’t want those photos from Iraq on this site because they’re too “graphic!” Click the above Foreign Policy Journal by David Swanson only if you have the stomach to see the photos!
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Joel Huan
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