Reply #49: Respectfully, I think your analogy is flawed. [View All]

Radioactive water behind a dam does not describe the situation with DU. Radioactive water everywhere seems to be closer to what scientists are telling us.

No Harm? It appears that DU does cause DNA damage which is permanent.

Uranyl acetate induces hprt mutations and uranium-DNA adducts in Chinese hamster ovary EM9 cells
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Questions about possible adverse health effects from exposures to uranium have arisen as a result of uranium mining, residual mine tailings and use of depleted uranium in the military. The purpose of the current study was to measure the toxicity of depleted uranium as uranyl acetate (UA) in mammalian cells.


http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/explaining_how.html">Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land

Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land
(Nano-particles pinpointed)
By Christopher Bollyn

Depleted uranium weapons, and the untold misery they wreak on mankind, are taboo subjects in the mainstream media. This exclusive report should break the media embargo imposed on the American people.

Despite being a grossly under-reported subject in the mainstream, there is intense public interest in depleted uranium (DU) and the damage it inflicts on humankind and the environment.

While American Free Press is actively investigating DU weapons and how they contribute to Gulf War Syndrome, the corporate-controlled press ignores the illegal use of DU and its long-lasting effects on the health of veterans and the public.

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Leuren Moret, a Berkeley-based geo-scientist with expertise in atmospheric dust, corresponds with AFP on DU issues. Recently Moret provided a copy of her letters to a British radiation biologist, Dr. Chris Busby, about how nanometer size particles—less than one-tenth of a micron and smaller—of DU once inhaled or absorbed into the body, can cause long-term damage to one’s health.


Another interesting read is http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james29.htm">DEPLETED URANIUM, ANTHRAX VACCINE AND THE GULF WAR SYNDROME

DEPLETED URANIUM, ANTHRAX VACCINE AND THE GULF WAR SYNDROME
PART 1 of 4
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
August 14, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

More and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S. government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms. Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in the first Gulf War were disabled within less than 10 years.

In August 2004 American Free Press reported that eight out of twenty men serving in one unit during the 2003 invasion of Iraq had developed malignancies. This translates into 40 % of the soldiers in that one unit developing malignancies within a 16 month period of time. What is causing these terrible health problems?

Nine members of the National Guard from New York State recently returned from Iraq. These persons were deployed as Military Police. Two manmade forms of uranium were found in urine specimens from 4 of these 9 soldiers. Certainly soldiers in combat roles would be expected to have even greater exposure to inhaling depleted uranium dust.

Since 1943 the military has been aware of the extreme toxicity of uranium as a gas. A Oct 30, 1943 memo from Manhattan Project physicist James B. Conant to Brig. General L.B. Abrams stated that as a gas warfare instrument the radioactive material would be ground into microscopic particles forming dust and smoke and could be distributed by ground fired projectiles, land vehicles or aerial bombs. In this form it would be inhaled by personnel. They estimated that one millionth of a gram would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment for such casualties.
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There's a lot of smoke eminating from the use of depleted uranium. Scientific evidence contines to mount that DU is bad stuff.

I'm in the camp that believes our government is covering up the harm that DU poses to humanity. IIRC, our government told us Agent Orange was not harmful. A simple Google seach on "agent orange"+Monsanto yields 75,900 hits. History seems to have proven that our government was lying to us about Agent Orange; I think they are lying about the hazards of DU. Time will tell.