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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 213
years. As U-238 breaks down, an ongoing process, it creates protactinium-234, which radiates
potent beta particles that may cause cancer as well as mutations in body cells that could lead to
birth defects.”
813
When a DU munition hits an intended target, between 40 to 70 percent of the DU
fragments. The kinetic energy actually causes it to burn through the heavy armor plate. The DU
particles become a cloud of smoke, and uranium oxide dust. “One gram of DU releases more
than 12,000 particles per second. The radiation slowly kills the cells that make life possible.”
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The extremely fine toxic particles can be swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. They
can pollute the soil, surface water and ground water. They can be absorbed by both plants and
animals and become a part of the food chain. The particles can be carried by the wind as far as
25 miles. The particles can also emit both alpha and beta radiation.
815
The potential health consequences of the particles of DU, uranium oxide and alpha and
beta radiation include: damage to brain tissue, kidneys, lungs, the digestive tract and other soft
tissues.
816
Specific problems associated with exposure to these particles include: cell mutations,
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“reactive airway disease, neurological abnormalities, kidney stones and chronic kidney pain,
rashes, vision degradation and night vision losses, lymphoma, various forms of skin and organ
cancer, neuropsychological disorders, uranium in semen, sexual dysfunction and birth defects in
offspring.”
818
An estimated 375 tons of armor piercing shells made of DU were used in the first GW in
Iraq and 1,100 to 2,200 tons were used in Iraq in 2003.
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According to a paper presented to the
the World Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg by Professor Yagasaki in October of
2003, “800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent to 83,000 Nagasaki bombs.... The amount of
DU used in Iraq in 2003 is equivalent to nearly 250,000 Nagasaki bombs.”
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The amount of DU
used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia is equivalent to 400,000 Nagasaki size nuclear
bombs.
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In spite of overwhelming scientific evidence, the US military denies the harmful effects
of DU. A recently declassified Manhattan Project memorandum from 1943 shows that three
project Physicists recommended to General L.R. Groves “that radiological materials be
developed for use as a military weapon on the battlefield.” DU fills all the necessary
requirements for such a radiological weapon.
In the memo, the scientists recommended dispersing the radioactive
materials in very fine particles, 0.1 microns in diameter, from the ground or the
air. It would disperse like a radioactive gas, invisible and undetectable to the
enemy. They described how increasing the amounts of radiation dispersed would
accelerate the lethality and decrease the time until death and increase the numbers
of dead.
It was known at that time that it would contaminate the air, water, food,
and the soil. Entry into contaminated environments was impossible without
certain exposure both to the enemy and to friendly forces. The memo detailed the
fact that no protective methods were possible to develop, and that very fine
particles would pass through all gas masks.
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