[Peace-discuss] More on depleted uranium

[Karen Aram]

At the risk of irritating Roger further, I found this on the Anti-War.com<http://anti-war.com> website in relation to the article from Foreign Policy.


Numerous studies have found that depleted uranium is particularly harmful when the dust is inhaled by the victim. A University of Southern Maine study discovered<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/may/08/cancer.medicineandhealth> that:

…DU damages DNA in human lung cells. The team, led by John Pierce Wise, exposed cultures of the cells to uranium compounds at different concentrations.

The compounds caused breaks in the chromosomes within cells and stopped them from growing and dividing healthily. ‘These data suggest that exposure to particulate DU may pose a significant [DNA damage] risk and could possibly result in lung cancer,’ the team wrote in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

We should remember that the United States is engaged in military activities in Syria in violation of international and US law. There is no Congressional authorization for US military action against ISIS in Syria and the United Nations has not authorized military force in violation of Syria’s sovereignty either.

The innocent citizens of Syria will be forced to endure increased risks of cancer, birth defects, and other disease related to exposure to radioactive materials. Depleted uranium is the byproduct of the enrichment of uranium to fuel nuclear power plants and has a half-life in the hundreds of millions of years. Damage to Syrian territory will thus continue long after anyone involved in current hostilities is dead.

Daniel McAdams is director of the The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity<http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/>. Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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