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Depleted Uranium - Silent Genocide |
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Compiled by Wandsworth Stop-the-War Coalition - first published January 2003
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Depleted Uranium - Silent Genocide |
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Imagine if they started a nuclear war, and never even told you ...
Under a smokescreen of depleted media attention, an imperial American military carpets the homelands of its victims with toxic, radioactive nuclear waste,
and wages wars whose devastating after effects will never end.
Depleted Uranium is truly a weapon of indefinite destruction, and the second Gulf War has spread even greater quantities of DU than the first one - this time over the whole of Iraq.
| Avigolfe | Independent association, representing French veterans suffering from Gulf War and Balkans syndromes |
| CADU | Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (launched by Manchester CND in 1999) |
| CASI | Campaign Against Sanctions in Iraq - a Cambridge University society (DU page is here) |
| CCNR | Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility |
| CERRIE | Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters - UK government body set up by COMARE in 2001, to re-evaluate the risk models for particle radiation |
| COMARE | Committee On Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment - long-established UK government body, billed as offering independent expert advice |
| DOD | US Dept of Defence - often loosely referred to in this report as the Pentagon (which is merely a part of the DOD) |
| DU | Depleted Uranium |
| DUOB | Depleted Uranium Oversight Board - supposedly independent body, set up in 2001 to oversee the UK's DU screening programme for veterans |
| ECRR | European Committee on Radiation Risk - EU body set up in 1997, to re-evaluate health risks of low level radiation |
| Euratom | European Atomic Energy Agency |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration (US government agency) |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN agency) |
| FAS | Federation of American Scientists |
| FDA | Food and Drugs Administration (US government agency) |
| GVA | Gulf Veterans Association (the association of British Gulf War vets) |
| GWS | Gulf War Syndrome |
| Hansard | Official reports of proceedings of the UK Parliament (House of Commons, House of Lords, Select Committees) |
| IAC | International Action Centre (US human-rights campaigning group, founded in 1992 by Ramsey Clark - former US Attorney General) |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Authority (this pro-nuclear lobby is a UN agency, the only one holding a mandate to promote a private-sector activity) |
| ICRP | International Commission on Radiation Protection (self-appointed, business-backed nuclear industry lobby) |
| IICPH | International Institute of Concern for Public Health (non-profit Canadian environmental health organisation, founded by Dr Rosalie Bertell) |
| Laka | The Laka Foundation are Dutch anti-nuclear and anti-DU campaigners |
| LLRC | Low Level Radiation Campaign (DU page is here) - co-founded by Dr Chris Busby in 1994 |
| MOD | UK Ministry of Defence |
| MTP | Military Toxics Project (US campaigners against military pollution - DU page is here) |
| NBC | Nuclear Biological Chemical |
| NBR | Normal Background Radiation |
| NGVFA | National Gulf Veterans and Families Association (an independent association of British Gulf War vets, existing primarily to support GWS sufferers) |
| NGWRC | National Gulf War Resource Center (primary independent representative of US Gulf War veterans) |
| NRPB | National Radiological Protection Board (UK government agency) |
| OSAGWI | Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses (Pentagon agency, set up to "investigate" GWS) |
| POST | The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK Parliamentary office) |
| RPHP | The Radiation and Public Health Project |
| SI | System Internationale (the modern "metric" system of weights and measures) |
| UKAEA | UK Atomic Energy Authority (UK government agency - affiliated to IAEA) |
| UMRC | Uranium Medical Research Centre - independent non-profit Canadian research body |
| UNEP | UN Environmental Programme (UN agency) |
| VA | Veterans Administration (Pentagon agency, handling veterans' general welfare) |
| WHO | World Health Organisation (UN agency) |
| WISE | World Information Service on Energy (Dutch anti-nuclear campaigners - DU page is here) |