THE DEMON HOT ATOM -- Nuke News and
Views
Vol. 1, ISSUE 1, April 25th, 2003
Russell David Hoffman, Editor
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Today's contents:
1) Support our Dupes! Letter to readers
from Russell Hoffman, Editor
2) Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops by Amy Worthington
3) STP CAN'T FIX THIS ENGINE!
4) Pentagon pushing for exemption from environmental laws
5) Bush is no friend of the Environment!
6) DU Cover Up For Gulf War II?
7) The Fox is Guarding the Hen-House, for sure!
8 ) Even the UN Urges DU cleanup -- so how can America continue to ignore reality?
9) Chernobyl still killing and maiming decades later
10) The 1950s and McCarthyism all over again.(Letter from Jack Shannon)
11) Some recommended links including where to find this document online
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1) Support our Dupes! Letter to readers from Russell Hoffman, Editor:
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April 25th, 2003
Dear Readers,
The American public is in a constant state of being duped -- even stupefied.
We are duped into thinking we are safe. We are stupefied into inaction.
We believe, erroneously, that we are protected by our overwhelming military
might. That we have no "Achilles heel".
But of course, anyone reading this probably already thinks THEY know better--
they just don't know whose responsibility it is to save us, or how to reach
those people.
This being a democracy (at least in theory), it's a communal responsibility,
since we have already determined that we all need to work together to solve
our many, complicated problems.
But where do we start? A life-time of study wouldn't train you in everything
you need to know to protect yourself! Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
assaults are all possible. Does Duct Tape help with all three?
An attack against our nuclear power plants is the biggest threat to America,
because the hazardous material is ALREADY HERE. The terrorists don't need
to transport it here -- we've done that for them. They don't need to attach
a timer to it -- it's ready to "go off" the instant they attack it.
They don't need to find it; everyone knows where it is and it can't be moved
as long as the plants are running. They don't need to acquire in-depth
knowledge of how the plants run. Despite industry claims, a single airplane,
let alone four airplanes, could cause the release of vast quantities of radioactive
poisons from any nuclear power facility. And besides, nuclear plants are
just like any other power plant, more or less, plus the radioactive poison.
So the terrorists could learn what to destroy at virtually any public library,
bookstore, or 1000s of web sites (not to mention, private libraries).
Also, there are about 330 nukes outside the United States for them to study,
many of them designed by the same corrupt American firms (primarily G.E. and
Westinghouse) that designed ours. And infiltrating our own is probably
not very difficult, either, even with supposedly tough new restrictions in place
since 9-11. Furthermore the public has a right to information about something
as critical as how millions of pounds of the most hazardous material on earth
is stored. So it is reasonable to assume the terrorists can easily learn
anything they want to know about our nuclear power plants.
Everybody who wants to, can know how vulnerable nuclear power plants really
are. We are being duped, but we don't need to be. Anyone can go
to the Reading Room of the University of California at Irvine, and study the
plans and regulations for the local nuclear power plants (San Onofre Units 2
and 3, and the closed Unit 1). I'm sure a lot of records have been stolen
or removed over the years, perhaps by plant employees or their agents, or even
by the NRC or the FBI. But a lot is still there, and it's all supposed
to be there -- it's a free country, run by the people, who need honest information
to run the country properly.
Unfortunately, the average American has no idea how a nuclear reactor really
works. They might know the radioactive cores are used to boil water, and
that they are very dangerous, but probably the average American doesn't even
know that much! The average American has no idea what the consequences
might be of an ejected instrument on the bottom of a 2200 PSI, 600+ degree,
reactor pressure vessel. As long as nothing goes wrong, ignorance is bliss.
In South Texas, something went very wrong last week -- they still haven't coughed
up the whole story, you can be sure of that. But the whole nation's nuclear
fleet has been doing political damage control ever since sediment from a leak
was discovered, and that alone is reason to believe it's a much bigger deal
than one might think, at first. There are many technical reasons to worry
about the potential for a "Small-Break Loss of Coolant Accident" from
this event -- and to worry, beyond that, about the industry's ability to contain
the meltdown within the dome, if a meltdown were to occur. And who knows
WHEN the reactor will go back on line? It's a fact: Nuclear power plants
are notoriously unreliable. Keyword: Notorious.
Those duped millions -- if they don't stop the nuclear juggernaut -- are doomed
to an early and painful death. And their children are doomed to deformities
and suffering. And those of us who live amongst them and are unable to
warn them, being called Chicken-Littles and such, are also doomed. We
don't like responding: "You'll see," but what else can we say?
Because of our insufferable, colossal, incalculable, unexplainable blindness,
America is DOOMED. We are doomed because we cannot face reality -- that
reality is the simple fact that we are VULNERABLE. Those of us who have
researched the matter THOROUGHLY AND INDEPENDENTLY know this UNEQUIVOCALLY --
and America needs to LISTEN to the many hard-working experts, who together have
proven time-and-again that THE DEMON HOT ATOM is the source of more deaths,
more cancers, more killing, more deformed babies than ANYTHING ELSE!
It's #1 with a bullet! It's the great Satan, unmasked! Wouldn't
it be nice if I WASN'T exaggerating?
But really, no other description fits the facts. Radioactive particles
are like little land-mines, or grenades if you prefer that analogy, or cluster
bombs, perhaps. Invisible to the naked eye, they invade and destroy our bodies.
Some Americans, and many other people around the world, know this to be true.
The Pentagon pretends it isn't, as official policy. The whole of the U.S.
Government follows, like sheep. All questions of radiological safety are
deferred to a small group of a few thousand nuclear "experts" who
refuse to see the forest for the trees, grasp the real facts, and admit that
they have missed the boat, rejected reality, and caused millions of deaths by
their misbehavior. Low Level Radiation is extremely dangerous -- especially
to children, infants, and fetuses. It is perhaps 1,000 times more dangerous
than the DOE and the NRC admits. NASA, the Air Force, the Army, the Marines,
and all the other agencies let these lead agencies IGNORE THE FACTS, and the
result is that the whole world is dying, while America poisons itself and the
rest of the planet. Around the world we are, rightfully, I'm sorry to
say, hated for this crime. Things have to change.
Depleted Uranium isn't Depleted, it's little more than ALTERED. Spent
Fuel isn't Spent, it's RADIOLOGICALLY ENHANCED. Below Regulatory Levels
isn't SAFE.
We are doomed because we cannot face truth -- that we are committing NUCLEAR
WAR when we use so-called "DEPLETED" URANIUM WEAPONS, and NUCLEAR
WAR will soon (sooner or later?) be committed against US -- in the form of attacks
on our NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS which will be A MILLION TIMES WORSE than the radiological
assault we've committed against Iraq. (Spent Nuclear Fuel is in the neighborhood
of about a MILLION TIMES MORE CARCINOGENIC, gram for gram, than so-called "Depleted
Uranium" is. And yet even DU is deadly in incredibly tiny quantities!)
Below I have included what is so far the best single article on the entire global
current situation -- if you love America, read Amy Worthington's article and
HELP CHANGE AMERICAN POLICY NOW! IF you LOVE AMERICA it's TIME TO ACT!
There are hard times ahead. The power brokers will force BLACKOUTS if
we find ANY REASON to shut down our nukes. We don't really need nuclear
power, but blackouts will occur anyway, simply to scare you. The Nuclear
Mafia are threatening to do this in Japan right now, since 17 nuclear power
plants around Tokyo are currently shut down, and they don't want people getting
used to the idea that they could get along fine without nuclear power.
All nuclear power plants need to be shut down! THEY ARE AGING RAPIDLY
AND LEAKING FROM TOP TO BOTTOM (Davis-Besse at the top, South Texas Project
#2 at the bottom.).
Our nuclear power plants are much more vulnerable to terrorism when running
than when shut down.
American policy must consider SCIENCE AND HUMANITARIAN ISSUES, NOT JUST CORPORATE
PROFITS from ALARA (ALARA is an acronym for As Low As Reasonably Achievable,
which means nuclear industries can release as much radiation as necessary to
REMAIN PROFITABLE!)
So far, the ONLY issue the NUCLEAR MAFIA has considered is this: Their own corporate
survival!
If we do not release ourselves from the shackles of our own self-imposed NUCLEAR
TYRANNY, America's dream of a greater prosperity for our children will be lost,
as America and the world BECOMES a NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP.
Sincerely,
Russell Hoffman
Concerned Citizen
Carlsbad, CA
Note to all Federal, State, and Local Employees or Agents reading this document:
Please send to Mr. Hoffman ( "Hoffman FOIA Request Responses" <rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com>
) the date and hour during which you read this document, and how much time you
spent on it (to the nearest five minutes), and who else you distributed the
document too, and when you received it, immediately. Federal Law, Statutes,
Guidelines, Principles, Dictates, Mandates, Policies, Procedures, and Spirits,
including the Paperwork Reduction Act and related Acts, demand that you respond
to this request as per Federal Regulations, as Amended on or after 1776.
Also see all statements of purpose of all government entities: To serve the
citizens. This citizen wants answers. The whole world's mad
at America now, because of our INSANE Federal Pro-Nuclear Policy, and I want
to find the person or persons within the government who are most responsible
for this madness. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated and may
help prevent backlash against you by angry mobs of, for example, the families
of our own irradiated veterans. The times' a-comin when THIS country will
be "anti-nuclear" and "environmentally friendly", or else
we're all doomed! -- rdh
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2) Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops
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(Forwarded to rdh by Hans Karow)
Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general37/nukes.htm
Death By Slow Burn -
How America Nukes Its Own Troops
What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means
By Amy Worthington
The Idaho Observer
4-16-3
On March 30, an AP photo featured an American pro-war activist holding a sign:
"Nuke the evil scum, it worked in 1945!" That's exactly what George
Bush has done. America's mega-billion dollar war in Iraq has been indeed a NUCLEAR
WAR.
Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU)
weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium
is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers
need radiation protection gear.
Over a decade ago, war-makers decided to incorporate this lethal waste into
much of the Pentagon's weaponry. Navy ships carrying Phalanx rapid fire guns
are capable of firing thousands of DU rounds per minute.1 Tomahawk missiles
launched from U.S. ships and subs are DU-tipped.2 The M1 Abrams tanks are armored
with DU.3 These and British Challenger II tanks are tightly packed with DU shells,
which continually irradiate troops in or near them.4 The A-10 "tank buster"
aircraft fires DU shells at machines and people on the battlefield.5
DU munitions are classified by a United Nations resolution as illegal weapons
of mass destruction. Their use breaches all international laws, treaties and
conventions forbidding poisoned weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.
Ironically, support for our troops will extend well beyond the war in Iraq.
Americans will be supporting Gulf War II veterans for years as they slowly and
painfully succumb to radiation poisoning. U.S and British troops deployed to
the area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout
zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability.
Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain,
unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and premature
death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the last Gulf conflict
so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses of experimental
vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to chemical weapons,
industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect repellent and radiation leftover
from the last war. This is a war even the victors will lose."6
When a DU shell is fired, it ignites upon impact. Uranium, plus traces of plutonium
and americium, vaporize into tiny, ceramic particles of radioactive dust. Once
inhaled, uranium oxides lodge in the body and emit radiation indefinitely. A
single particle of DU lodged in a lymph node can devastate the entire immune
system according to British radiation expert Roger Coghill.7
The Royal Society of England published data showing that battlefield soldiers
who inhale or swallow high levels of DU can suffer kidney failure within days.8
Any soldier now in Iraq who has not inhaled lethal radioactive dust is not breathing.
In the first two weeks of combat, 700 Tomahawks, at a cost of $1.3 million each,
blasted Iraqi real estate into radioactive mushroom clouds.9 Millions of DU
tank rounds liter the terrain. Cleanup is impossible because there is no place
on the planet to put so much contaminated debris.
Bush Sr.'s Gulf War I was also a nuclear war. 320 tons of depleted uranium were
used against Iraq in 1991.10 A 1998 report by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances
confirms that inhaling DU causes symptoms identical to those claimed by many
sick vets with Gulf War Syndrome.11 The Gulf War Veterans Association reports
that at least 300,000 Gulf War I vets have now developed incapacitating illnesses.12
To date, 209,000 vets have filed claims for disability benefits based on service-connected
injuries and illnesses from combat in that war.13
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a professor of nuclear medicine at Georgetown University,
is a former army medical expert. He told nuclear scientists in Paris last year
that tens of thousands of sick British and American soldiers are now dying from
radiation they encountered during Gulf War I. He found that 62 percent of sick
vets tested have uranium isotopes in their organs, bones, brains and urine.14
Laboratories in Switzerland and Finland corroborated his findings.
In other studies, some sick vets were found to be expressing uranium in even
their semen. Their sexual partners often complained of a burning sensation during
intercourse, followed by their own debilitating illnesses.15
Nothing compares to the astronomical cancer rates and birth defects suffered
by the Iraqi people who have endured vicious nuclear chastisement for years.16
U.S. air attacks against Iraq since 1993 have undoubtedly employed nuclear munitions.
Pictures of grotesquely deformed Iraqi infants born since 1991 are overwhelming.17
Like those born to Gulf War I vets, many babies born to troops now in Iraq will
also be afflicted with hideous deformities, neurological damage and/or blood
and respiratory disorders.18
As an Army health physicist, Dr. Doug Rokke was dispatched to the Middle East
to salvage DU-contaminated tanks after Gulf War I. His Geiger counters revealed
that the war zones of Iraq and Kuwait were contaminated with up to 300 millirems
an hour in beta and gamma radiation plus thousands to millions of counts per
minute in alpha radiation. Rokke recently told the media: "The whole area
is still trashed. It is hotter than heck over there still. This stuff doesn't
go away."19
DU remains "hot" for 4.5 billion years. Radiation expert Dr. Helen
Caldicott confirms that the dust-laden winds of DU-contaminated war zones "will
remain effectively radioactive for the rest of time."20 The murderous dust
storms which ensnared coalition troops during the first few days of the current
invasion are sure to have significant health consequences.
Rokke and his clean-up team were issued only flimsy dust masks for their dangerous
work. Of the 100 people on Rokke's decontamination team, 30 have already "dropped
dead." Rokke himself is ill with radiation damage to lungs and kidneys.
He has brain lesions, skin pustules, chronic fatigue, continual wheezing and
painful fibromyalgia. Rokke warns that anyone exposed to DU should have adequate
respiratory protection and special coveralls to protect their clothing because,
he says, you can't get uranium particles off your clothing.
The U.S. military insists that DU on the battlefield is not a problem. Colonel
James Naughton of the U.S. Army Material Command recently told the BBC that
complaints about DU "had no medical basis."21 The military's own documents
belie this. A 1993 Pentagon document warned that "when soldiers inhale
or ingest DU dust they incur a potential increase in cancer risk."22 A
U.S. Army training manual requires anyone who comes within 25 meters of DU-contaminated
equipment to wear respiratory and skin protection.23 The U.S. Army Environmental
Policy Institute admitted: "If DU enters the body, it has the potential
to generate significant medical consequences."24 The Institute also stated
that, if the troops were to realize what they had been exposed to, "the
financial implications of long-term disability payments and healthcare costs
would be excessive."25 For pragmatic reasons, DOD chooses to lie and deny.
Dr. Rokke confirms that the Pentagon lies about DU dangers and is criminally
negligent for neglecting medical attention needed by DU-contaminated vets. He
predicts that the numbers of American troops to be sickened by DU from Gulf
War II will be staggering.26 As they gradually sicken and suffer a slow burn
to their graves, the Pentagon will, as it did after Gulf War I, deny that their
misery and death is a result of their tour in Iraq.
Dr. Rokke's candor has cost him his career. Likewise, Dr. Durakovic's radiation
studies on Gulf War I vets were not popular with U.S. officials. Dr. Durakovic
was reportedly told his life was in danger if he continued his research. He
left the U.S. to continue his research abroad.27
Naive young coalition soldiers now in Iraq are likely unaware of how deadly
their battlefield environment is. Gulf War I troops were kept in ignorance.
Soldiers handled DU fragments and some wore these lethal nuggets around their
necks. A DU projectile emits more radiation in five hours than allowed in an
entire year under civilian radiation exposure standards. "We didn't know
any better," Kris Kornkven told Nation magazine. "We didn't find out
until long after we were home that there even was such a thing as DU."28
George Bush's ongoing war in Afghanistan is also a nuclear war. Shortly after
9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear weapons including
small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited to commando warfare in
Afghanistan.29 In late September, 2001, Bush and Russian president Vladimir
Putin agreed that the U.S. would use tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan
while Putin would employ nuclear weapons against the Chechnyans.30
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith writes in
the Village Voice: "Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing for smashing
through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the force of an estimated
340,000 tons of TNT. It is lots of bang for the buck, literally two apocalypse
bombs in one, a boosted plutonium firecracker called the primary and a heavy
hydrogen secondary for that good old-fashioned H-bomb fireball."31
Drought-stricken Afghanistan's underground water supply is now contaminated
by these nuclear weapons.32 Experts with the Uranium Medical Research Center
report that urine samples of Afghanis show the highest level of uranium ever
recorded in a civilian population. Afghani soldiers and civilians are reported
to have died after suffering intractable vomiting, severe respiratory problems,
internal bleeding and other symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning. Dead
birds still perched in trees are found partially melted with blood oozing from
their mouths.33
Afghanistan's new president, Hamid Karzai, is a puppet installed by Washington.
Under the protection of American soldiers, Karzai's regime is setting a new
record for opium production. Both UN and U.S. reports confirm that the huge
Afghani opium harvest of 2002 makes Afghanistan the world's leading opium producer.34
Thanks to nuclear weapons, Afghanistan is now safe for the Bush-Cheney narcotics
industry.35 ABC News asserts that keeping the "peace" in Afghanistan
will require decades of allied occupation.36 For years to come, "peacekeepers"
will be eating, drinking and breathing the "hot" carcinogenic pollution
they have helped the Pentagon inflict upon that nation for organized crime.
As governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra era, Bill Clinton laundered $multi-millions
in cocaine profits for then vice-president George Bush Sr.37 As a partner in
the Bush family's notorious crime machine, President Clinton committed U.S.
troops to NATO's campaign in the Balkans, a prime heroin production and trans-shipment
area. DOD's campaign to control and reorganize the drug trade there for the
Bush mafia was yet another nuclear project.
For years, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and shells across the
Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. As DU munitions were
slammed into chemical plants, the environment became hideously toxic, also endangering
the peoples of Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary. By 1999,
UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU had caused irreparable
damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with agriculture, livestock and air water,
and public health all profoundly damaged.38
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium in their
urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that hundreds of Bosnians
have died of cancer from NATO's DU bombardment.40 Many NATO peacekeepers in
the Balkans now suffer ill health. Their leukemias, cancers and other maladies
are dubbed the "Balkans Syndrome." Richard Coghill predicts that DU
weapons used in Balkans campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal
cancer.41
U.S. citizens at home are also paying a heavy price for criminal militarism
gone mad. DOD is a pollution monster. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found
9,181 dangerous military sites in USA that will require $billions to rehabilitate.
The GAO reports that DOD has been both slothful and deceitful in its clean-up
obligations.42 The Pentagon is now pressing Congress to exempt it from all environmental
laws so that it may pollute and poison free from liability.43
The Navy uses prime fishing grounds off the coast of Washington state to test
fire DU ammunition. In January, Washington State Rep. Jim McDermott chastised
the Navy: "On one hand you have required soldiers to have DU safety training
and to wear protective gear when handling DU...and submarines must stay clear
of DU-contaminated waters. These policies indicate there is cause for concern....On
the other hand the Department of Defense has repeatedly denied that DU poses
any danger whatsoever. There has been no remorse about leaving tons of DU equipment
in the soil in foreign countries, and there appears to be no remorse about leaving
it in the waters of your own country."44
DU has been used in military practice maneuvers in Indiana, Florida, New Mexico,
Massachusetts, Maryland and Puerto Rico. After the Navy tested DU weaponry on
the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, one third of the island's population developed
serious illness. Many people show high levels of uranium in their bodies. Hundreds
have filed a class action suit against the Navy for $100 million, claiming DU
contamination has caused widespread cancers.45
The Navy's Fallon Naval Air Station near Fallon, Nevada, is a quagmire of 26
toxic waste sites. It is also a target practice zone for DU bombs and missiles.
Area residents report bizarre illnesses, including 17 children who have contracted
leukemia within five years. A survey of groundwater in the Fallon area showed
nearly half of area wells are contaminated with radioactive materials.46
The materials for DU weaponry have been processed mainly at three nuclear plants
in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, where workers handling uranium contaminated
with plutonium have suffered for decades with cancers and debilitating maladies
similar to Gulf War Syndrome.47
Emboldened by power-grabbing successes made possible by his administration's
devious 9-11 project, President Bush asserts that the U.S. has the right to
attack any nation it deems a potential threat. He told West Point in 2002, "If
we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long."48
Thus, it is certain that Bush-Cheney future pre-emptive nuclear wars are lined
up like idling jets on a runway. Both Cheney's Halliburton Corp. and the Bush
family's Carlyle Group are profiteers in U.S. defense contracts, so endless
war is just good business.49
The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon will create special nuclear weapons
for use on North Korea's underground nuclear facilities.50 Next August, U.S.
war makers will meet to consolidate plans for a new generation of "mini,"
"micro" and "tiny" nuclear bombs and bunker busters. These
will be added to the U.S. arsenal perhaps for use against non-nuclear third-world
nations such as Iran, Syria, Lebanon.51
The solution? Americans must stop electing ruthless criminals to rule this nation.
We must convince fellow citizens that villains like Saddam Hussein are made
in the U.S. as rationale for endless corporate war profits. Saddam was placed
in power by the CIA.52 For years U.S. government agencies, under auspices of
George Bush Sr., supplied him with chemical and biological weapons.53 Our national
nuclear laboratories, along with Unisys, Dupont and Hewlett-Packard, sold Saddam
materials for his nuclear program.54 Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton in the
late 90s when its subsidiaries signed $73 million in new contracts to further
supply Saddam.55 The wicked villain of Iraq was nurtured for decades as a cash-cow
by U.S. military-industrial piranhas.
If America truly supports its troops, it must stop sending them into nuclear
holocaust for the enrichment of thugs. Time is running out. If the DU-maniacs
at the Pentagon and their coven of nuclear arms peddlers are not harnessed,
America will have no able-bodied fighting forces left. All people of the earth
will become grossly ill, hideously deformed and short- lived. We must succeed
in the critical imperative to face reality and act decisively. Should we fail,
there will be no place to hide from Bush-Cheney's merciless nuclear orgies yet
to come or from the inevitable nuclear retaliation these orgies will surely
breed.
Endnotes
. Endnotes
1."DOD Launches Depleted Uranium Training," Linda Kozaryn, American
Forces Press Service, 8-13-99.
2."Nukes of the Gulf War,"John Shirley, Zess@aol.com. See this article
in archives at www.gulfwarvets.com.
3. BBC News, "US To Use Depleted Uranium," March 18, 2003; U.S. General
Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: "Early Performance Assessment
of Bradley and Abrams," 1-2-92.
4."Nukes of the Gulf War," op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. "Invading Hiroshima," William Thomas, 2-4-2003, www.willthomas.net
7. "US Shells Leave Lethal Legacy," Toronto Star, July 31, 1999; also
"Radiation Tests for Peacekeepers in the Balkans Exposed to Depleted Uranium,"
www.telegraph.co.uk,
12-31-02.
8. "Depleted Uranium May Stop Kidneys In Days," Rob Edwards, New Scientist.com,
3-12-02; also "Uranium Weapons Too Hot to Handle," Rob Edwards, New
Scientist.co.uk, 6-9-99.
9. "Navy Seeks Cash for More Tomahawks," David Rennie in Washington,
Telegraph Group Limited, 1-4-03, news.telegraph.co.uk.
10. "Going Nuclear in Iraq--DU Cancers Mount Daily," Ramzi Kysia,
CounterPunch.org, 12-31-01.
11."Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread," Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01, www.guardianlimited.co.uk.
12. "Gulf War Illnesses Affect 300,000 Vets," Ellen Tomson, Pioneer
Press, www.pioneerplanet.com.
See also American Gulf War Veterans Association at www.gulfwarvets.com.
13. "2 of Every 5 Gulf War Vets Are On Disability: 209,000 Make VA Claims,"
World Net Daily, 1-28-03, WorldNetDaily.com.
14. "Research on Sick Gulf Vets Revisited, "New York Times, 1-29-01;
"Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning," Jonathon Carr-Brown
and Martin Meissonnier, The Sunday Times (UK) 9-3-02.
15. "Catastrophe: Ill Gulf Vets Contaminated Partners With DU," The
Halifax Herald Limited, Clare Mellor, 2-09-01. This article is available in
archives at www.rense.com.
16. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium," Seattle
Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02; "US Depleted Uranium Yields Chamber of Horrors
in Southern Iraq, Andy Kershaw, The Independent (London) 12-4-01.
17. "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf War Region
with Special References to Iraq," Ross Mirkarimi, The Arms Control Research
Centre, May 1992. See also Gulf War Syndrome Birth Defects in Iraq at www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html.
18. "The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm, Has Our Country Abandoned Them?,"
Life Magazine, November 1995; "Birth Defects Killing Gulf War Babies,"
Los Angeles Times, 11-14-94; "Depleted Uranium, The Lingering Poison,"
Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 6-7-99.
19. "Depleted Uranium, A Killer Disaster," Travis Dunn, Disaster News.net,
12-29-02.
20. San Francisco Chronicle, 10-10-02.
21. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News, 3-18-03.
22. "Depleted Uranium Symptoms Match US Report As Fears Spread," Peter
Beaumont, The Observer (UK) 1-14-01.
23. "Iraqi Cancer, Birth Defects Blamed on US Depleted Uranium," Seattle
Post- Intelligencer, 11-12-02.
24. "US To Use Depleted Uranium," BBC News, 3-18-03.
25. US Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental Consequences
of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report, June 1995.
26. "Pentagon Depleted Uranium No Health Risk," Dr. Doug Rokke, 3-15-03;
also "The Terrible, Tragic Toll of Depleted Uranium," Address by Dr.
Rokke before congressional leaders in Washington, D.C.,12-30-02; also "Gulf
War Casualties," Dr. Doug Rokke, www.traprockpeace.org.
9-30-02.
27."Tests Show Gulf War Victims Have Uranium Poisoning," Sunday Times
(UK), Jonathon Carr-Brown and Martin Meissonnier, 9-3-00.
28. "The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet: An Investigative Report,"
Bill Mesler, The Nation, 5-28-99, see www.thenation.com/
issue/961021/1021mesl.htm.
29. "Tactical Nukes Deployed In Afghanistan," World Net Daily, 10-7-01.
30. Ibid.
31. "The B-61 Bomb,The Burrowing Nuke" George Smith,VillageVoice.com
12-29-02.; also "Bunker-busting US Tactical Nuclear Bombs, Nowhere to Hide,"
Kennedy Grey, Wired.com, 10-9-01.
32."Perpetual Death From America," Mohammed Daud Miraki, Afghan-American
Interviews, 2-24-03; also "Dying of Thirst," Fred Pearce, New Scientist,
11-17-2001.
33. Ibid.
34. "Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer," Agence
France-Presse, 3-01-03. This article is at www.copvcia.com.;also
"Opium Trade Flourishing In the `New Afghanistan,'" Reuters, 3-3-03.
35. "The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire," Michael C. Ruppert, Nexus Magazine,
February-March 2000; The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug
Trade, Alfred W. McCoy, Lawrence Hill & Co., revised edition due May 2003;
Drugging of America, Rodney Stich, Diablo Western Press, 1999; "Blood for
Oil, Drugs for Arms," Bob Djurdjevic, Truth In Media, April 2000, www.truthinmedia.org.
36. ABC News, February 27, 2003.
37. Compromised, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry Reed and John Cummings, S.P.I.
Books, 1994; The Clinton Chronicles and The Mena Cover-up, Citizens for Honest
Government, 1996; "The Crimes of Mena, Grey Money," Ozark Gazette,
1995 (see www.copvcia.com.)
38. "Damage to Yugoslav Environment is Immense, Says a UN Report,"
Bob Djurdjevic, 7-4-99, truthinmedia.org. This report was submitted to the UN
Security Council on June 9, 1999; also, "New Depleted Uranium Study Shows
Clear Damage," BBC News,8-28-99; also "NATO Issued Warning About Toxic
Ammo," Associated Press, 01-08-01.
39. CounterPunch.org, 12-28-01.
40. "Hundreds Died of Cancer After DU Bombing--Doctor," Reuters, 1-13-01.
41."Depleted Uranium Threatens Balkan Cancer Epidemic," BBC News,
7-30-99.
42. "Many Defense Sites Still Hazardous," Associated Press, 9-24-02;
also Old US Weapons Called Hidden Danger, Los Angeles Times, 11-25-02.
43. "Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea," Andrew
Gumbel in L.A., 3-13-03, Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
44. "Radioactive DU Ammo Is Tested in Fish Areas," Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
1-11-03; Letter from Rep. McDermott to Department of the Navy: see "Navy
Fired DU Rounds Into Waters Off Coast of Washington," 1-20-03, rense.com.
45."Cancer Rates Soar From US Military Use of DU On `Enchanted Island,'"
www.telegraph.co.uk,
2-5-01; also "Navy Shells With Depleted Uranium Fired in Puerto Rico,"
Fox News Online, 5-28-99.
46. "The Fallon, NV Cancer Cluster And a US Navy Bombing," Jeffrey
St. Clair, CounterPunch.org, 8-10-02.
47. "DU Shells Are Made of A Potentially Lethal Cocktail of Nuclear Waste,"
Jonathon Carr-Brown, www.sunday-times.co.uk,
1-22-01.
48. "Preventative War Sets Perilous Precedent," Helen Thomas, Hearst
Newspapers, 3-20-03.
49. PIGS at the Trough, Arriana Huffington, Random House, 2003 (New York
Times best seller.); also "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy, From Hitler
to Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden Insider Connections and the Bush Family's
Partnership With Killers of Americans;" Mike Ruppert, From the Wilderness,10-10-01;
also "Bush Sr.'s Carlyle Group Gets Fat on War and Conflict," Jamie
Doward, The Observer (UK), 3-25-03; also "Halliburton Wins Contract for
Iraq Oil Firefighting, Reuters, 3-7-03; also "Cashing In-Fortunes in Profits
Await Bush Circle After Iraq War, Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (London) 9-15-02;
also "War Could Be Big Business for Halliburton," Reuters, 3-23-03.
50. "Pentagon Seeks a Nuclear Digger," Washington Post, March 10,
2003.
51. "Remember: Bush Planed Iraq War Before Taking Office," Neil Mackay,
The Sunday Herald (UK) 3-27-03; also "US Mini-Nukes Alarm Scientists,"
The Guardian (UK) 4-18-01; also "US Nuclear First-Strike Plan--It Keeps
Getting Scarier, Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review, 2-24-03.
52. Wall Street Journal, 8-16-90: The CIA supported the Baath Party and installed
Hussein as Iraqi dictator in 1968.
53. "United States Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health
of Persian Gulf War Veterans," Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and
Urban Affairs, 1992, 1994; "U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup," Washington
Post, 12-30-02.
54. "US Government, 24 US Corps Illegally Helped Iraq Build Its WMD,"
Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Financial Times, 12-19-02; "Full List of US
Weapons Suppliers To Iraq," Anu de Monterice, coachanu@earthlink.net, 12-19-02.
55. Huffington, op. cit.
Amy Worthington is a reporter for The Idaho Observer Observer@coldreams.com
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Thorough inspections and careful deliberations characterize effort
STP, Industry Respond to Residue Issue
Wadsworth, Texas -- April 18, 2003 Engineers at the South Texas Project (STP)
are examining a small quantity of residue found inside the Unit 1 reactor containment
building. The residue was found on Saturday while the reactor was shut down
in a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage.
The powdery material, about the size of one-half of an aspirin, was located
on the outside of two instrument guide tubes where they enter the bottom of
the reactor vessel. The vessel is housed inside the reinforced concrete and
steel-lined containment building.
Test results indicate the crystallized minerals in the residue came from reactor
coolant fluid. The tubes contain instruments that measure reactor operations.
"During these scheduled outages, we thoroughly inspect the plant and its
major components to confirm the physical health of our facilities," Plant
General Manager Ed Halpin said. "Finding this minute amount of residue
demonstrates our inspection process works."
STP officials are working closely with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
The NRC will review any corrective action plan prior to implementation. In addition
to working with the NRC, the plant has also taken the following actions:
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