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Boyle and other legal experts have also long
maintained that DU munitions
are illegal under a host of international laws,
such as the Hague Convention
of 1907. The U.S. government is party to the
convention, which prohibits
weapons that are "unnecessary," as well as those
that cause cruel, long
lasting or uncontrollable effects.
Boyle argues that DU munitions are "unnecessary"
because weapons made with
another metal - tungsten - are equally as
effective. The Pentagon does not
use tungsten, Boyle said, because it would have to
pay for it.
"They get the DU for free, and this is basically a
question of money," Boyle
said. "DU is an unnecessary weapon."
The Geneva protocol of 1925, to which the U.S. is
also a signatory,
prohibits the use of radiation as a weapon, Boyle
noted.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-25-15.html
NATO Says No Link Between Depleted Uranium, Cancer
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 25, 2001 (ENS) - There
is no link between the
depleted uranium munitions used in the NATO led
Balkans wars and the rash of
cancers that have been reported by soldiers who
fought in the conflicts,
according to the chairman of a multinational
committee convened to study the
matter.
Daniel Speckhard, the U.S. Ambassador to Belarus
and the chairman of NATO's
ad hoc committee on depleted uranium (DU), said
Wednesday that "based on the
data today, no link has been established between
depleted uranium and any
forms of cancer."
"To date, no nation has found evidence of an
increase in incidence of
illness among peacekeepers [who served] in the
Balkans compared with the
incidence of illness among armed forces not
serving in the Balkans,"
Speckhard said at a news conference. "None of the
nations reported finding a
link between health complaints of personnel
employed in the Balkans and
depleted uranium munitions."
NATO Spokesman Mark Laity, third from left,
discusses the possible health
effects of depleted uranium with several military
experts at a recent news
conference in Brussels, Belgium (Photo courtesy
NATO)
Speckhard's committee, which represents about 50
nations, was formed earlier
this month to investigate the alleged link between
the adverse health
effects that have been reported by NATO soldiers
and the DU munitions that
were used in the wars waged in Bosnia, Herzegovina
and Kosovo. Speckhard
said on Wednesday that the committee intends to
bring "maximum transparency"
to the inquiry, which he said was undertaken to
ensure that there is "no
health risk to our troops or civilians in the
Balkans" as a result of the DU
munitions used there.
The United States and a host of other allied
nations have for years supplied
their armed forces with machine gun rounds and
rocket like projectiles
tipped with depleted uranium, which by definition
contains statistically
insignificant amounts of radioactivity. The
Pentagon and NATO both maintain
that DU munitions are essential war fighting
tools, because of their ability
to pierce through armor plated tanks and other
heavily defended targets.
Depleted uranium munitions are effective at
piercing heavily armored
vehicles, such as this tank (Photo courtesy NATO)
The Pentagon acquires much of its DU at no cost
from nuclear weapons plants,
which are generally eager to get rid of the tens
of thousands of tons of
wastes that are piling up at their facilities.
Both the Pentagon and NATO
have long denied that DU munitions pose any health
risks from residual
radioactivity.
DU munitions were used widely in the Persian Gulf
War as well as the more
recent conflicts in the Balkans, and thousands of
veterans who fought in
those campaigns disagree with NATO's conclusions.
Many of these veterans
have been plagued by a rash of unexplained health
effects, including chronic
fatigue, paralysis and death.
Gulf War veterans gathered in Washington, DC, last
year to demand
recognition and treatment for their illness (Photo
courtesy American Gulf
War Veterans Association)
DU, which is regulated in the United States by the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, is supposed to contain no other
radionuclides other than
uranium. But critics charge that the substance
often contains other
dangerous elements associated with nuclear power
plants, such as plutonium,
radium and americium.
That fear was at least partially borne out earlier
this week, when a
Pentagon spokesman acknowledged that traces of
plutonium were inadvertently
incorporated into DU munitions that were made some
30 years ago. The mistake
came about because of contaminated equipment at a
domestic power plant, the
spokesman said.
NATO spokesman Mark Laity, appearing at the
Brussels news conference on
Wednesday along with Speckhard, was quick to
downplay the significance of
the Pentagon's revelation. Laity said that it was
"quite possible" that
traces of plutonium or other radionuclides will
turn up in soil samples now
being taken in the Balkans. But such findings, he
said, would not constitute
a threat to public health or the environment.
"These contaminants are known about and are in
minute amounts," Laity said.
"Those trace elements have been found to be too
small to add to the existing
low level health risk that there is."
"If they find [traces of plutonium or other
radionuclides], we will not be
surprised, and I will not be worried," added
Laity, who delivered his
remarks with a DU round sitting nearby.
That point was echoed by NATO's Supreme Commander
in Europe, U.S. Air Force
General Joseph Ralston. Ralston, speaking in
Athens, Greece, told reporters
that he would not hesitate authorizing the firing
of DU rounds "tonight,"
should such action be called for.
U.S. Air Force General Joseph Ralston, NATO's
Supreme Commander in Europe
(Photo courtesy NATO)
But a team of scientists at the Lovelace
Respiratory Research Institute in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Wednesday unveiled a
study that found that DU of
the type used by the U.S. military can cause
cancer in laboratory animals.
Fletcher Hahn, a senior scientist on the project,
told the Reuters news
organization that the study represents a "warning
flag that we shouldn't
ignore."
Still, Hahn emphasized that the study "doesn't
mean that [DU] is
carcinogenic to humans."
Meanwhile, two international organizations today
announced that they may
take action to assist the World Health
Organization (WHO) team of
researchers, which is currently studying the
matter of DU use in the Persian
Gulf. The United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may launch "fact
finding missions" to the Balkan
region, their respective officials said.
UNEP officials will decide soon whether to
dispatch a team of researchers to
Bosnia Herzegovina for the purpose of studying the
public health and
environmental implications of the DU munitions
used there, officials said.
The IAEA is considering holding a training course
to help researchers in the
Balkan region to better understand the complex
measurement and assessment
methods associated with conducting analysis on
depleted uranium, officials
from the group said.
That is of little comfort to Francis Boyle, a
professor of international law
at the University of Illinois at
Urbanna/Champaign. Boyle, who consulted on
a 1994 documentary film that linked a host of
health effects to DU, said
that the IAEA was only getting involved in the
project to do "damage
control."
"The IAEA is a front organization for the nuclear
power industry, so you
can't believe anything they say," Boyle said. "It
is an unfortunate sign, in
my opinion, that the WHO and UNEP would be
coordinating anything with the
IAEA. They're going to try and cover this whole
thing up."
Boyle, like many critics, maintains that DU poses
far greater risks to
public health and the environment than the
Pentagon and NATO are letting on.
He said that DU munitions are teeming with
plutonium and other radionuclides
that should not be exempted from regulatory
oversight.
When DU munitions hit their targets, Boyle noted,
they typically release
particles which can contaminate air and nearby
water.
"Even a speck of plutonium can kill you," Boyle
noted. "But there's a lot
more in DU munitions than just depleted uranium,
and in any event, once it
vaporizes . and people are breathing it and eating
it, it kills people."
Boyle, like many others, believes that DU played a
causal role in mysterious
"Gulf War Syndrome" that affected tens of
thousands of veterans who fought
in that war.
The Pentagon flatly denies such charges.
Boyle and other legal experts have also long
maintained that DU munitions
are illegal under a host of international laws,
such as the Hague Convention
of 1907. The U.S. government is party to the
convention, which prohibits
weapons that are "unnecessary," as well as those
that cause cruel, long
lasting or uncontrollable effects.
Boyle argues that DU munitions are "unnecessary"
because weapons made with
another metal - tungsten - are equally as
effective. The Pentagon does not
use tungsten, Boyle said, because it would have to
pay for it.
"They get the DU for free, and this is basically a
question of money," Boyle
said. "DU is an unnecessary weapon."
The Geneva protocol of 1925, to which the U.S. is
also a signatory,
prohibits the use of radiation as a weapon, Boyle
noted. And a protocol to
the 1977 Geneva Convention contains a provision
that bans weapons and
techniques of warfare that cause severe, long term
environmental impacts, he
noted.
The U.S. is not a signatory to that agreement.
NATO has posted a detailed map on its website
showing where DU munitions
were targeted in Bosnia and Kosovo. The map can be
viewed at
http://www.nato.int
Boyle and other legal experts have also long
maintained that DU munitions
are illegal under a host of international laws,
such as the Hague Convention
of 1907. The U.S. government is party to the
convention, which prohibits
weapons that are "unnecessary," as well as those
that cause cruel, long
lasting or uncontrollable effects.
Boyle argues that DU munitions are "unnecessary"
because weapons made with
another metal - tungsten - are equally as
effective. The Pentagon does not
use tungsten, Boyle said, because it would have to
pay for it.
"They get the DU for free, and this is basically a
question of money," Boyle
said. "DU is an unnecessary weapon."
The Geneva protocol of 1925, to which the U.S. is
also a signatory,
prohibits the use of radiation as a weapon, Boyle
noted.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-25-15.html
NATO Says No Link Between Depleted Uranium, Cancer
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 25, 2001 (ENS) - There
is no link between the
depleted uranium munitions used in the NATO led
Balkans wars and the rash of
cancers that have been reported by soldiers who
fought in the conflicts,
according to the chairman of a multinational
committee convened to study the
matter.
Daniel Speckhard, the U.S. Ambassador to Belarus
and the chairman of NATO's
ad hoc committee on depleted uranium (DU), said
Wednesday that "based on the
data today, no link has been established between
depleted uranium and any
forms of cancer."
"To date, no nation has found evidence of an
increase in incidence of
illness among peacekeepers [who served] in the
Balkans compared with the
incidence of illness among armed forces not
serving in the Balkans,"
Speckhard said at a news conference. "None of the
nations reported finding a
link between health complaints of personnel
employed in the Balkans and
depleted uranium munitions."
NATO Spokesman Mark Laity, third from left,
discusses the possible health
effects of depleted uranium with several military
experts at a recent news
conference in Brussels, Belgium (Photo courtesy
NATO)
Speckhard's committee, which represents about 50
nations, was formed earlier
this month to investigate the alleged link between
the adverse health
effects that have been reported by NATO soldiers
and the DU munitions that
were used in the wars waged in Bosnia, Herzegovina
and Kosovo. Speckhard
said on Wednesday that the committee intends to
bring "maximum transparency"
to the inquiry, which he said was undertaken to
ensure that there is "no
health risk to our troops or civilians in the
Balkans" as a result of the DU
munitions used there.
The United States and a host of other allied
nations have for years supplied
their armed forces with machine gun rounds and
rocket like projectiles
tipped with depleted uranium, which by definition
contains statistically
insignificant amounts of radioactivity. The
Pentagon and NATO both maintain
that DU munitions are essential war fighting
tools, because of their ability
to pierce through armor plated tanks and other
heavily defended targets.
Depleted uranium munitions are effective at
piercing heavily armored
vehicles, such as this tank (Photo courtesy NATO)
The Pentagon acquires much of its DU at no cost
from nuclear weapons plants,
which are generally eager to get rid of the tens
of thousands of tons of
wastes that are piling up at their facilities.
Both the Pentagon and NATO
have long denied that DU munitions pose any health
risks from residual
radioactivity.
DU munitions were used widely in the Persian Gulf
War as well as the more
recent conflicts in the Balkans, and thousands of
veterans who fought in
those campaigns disagree with NATO's conclusions.
Many of these veterans
have been plagued by a rash of unexplained health
effects, including chronic
fatigue, paralysis and death.
Gulf War veterans gathered in Washington, DC, last
year to demand
recognition and treatment for their illness (Photo
courtesy American Gulf
War Veterans Association)
DU, which is regulated in the United States by the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, is supposed to contain no other
radionuclides other than
uranium. But critics charge that the substance
often contains other
dangerous elements associated with nuclear power
plants, such as plutonium,
radium and americium.
That fear was at least partially borne out earlier
this week, when a
Pentagon spokesman acknowledged that traces of
plutonium were inadvertently
incorporated into DU munitions that were made some
30 years ago. The mistake
came about because of contaminated equipment at a
domestic power plant, the
spokesman said.
NATO spokesman Mark Laity, appearing at the
Brussels news conference on
Wednesday along with Speckhard, was quick to
downplay the significance of
the Pentagon's revelation. Laity said that it was
"quite possible" that
traces of plutonium or other radionuclides will
turn up in soil samples now
being taken in the Balkans. But such findings, he
said, would not constitute
a threat to public health or the environment.
"These contaminants are known about and are in
minute amounts," Laity said.
"Those trace elements have been found to be too
small to add to the existing
low level health risk that there is."
"If they find [traces of plutonium or other
radionuclides], we will not be
surprised, and I will not be worried," added
Laity, who delivered his
remarks with a DU round sitting nearby.
That point was echoed by NATO's Supreme Commander
in Europe, U.S. Air Force
General Joseph Ralston. Ralston, speaking in
Athens, Greece, told reporters
that he would not hesitate authorizing the firing
of DU rounds "tonight,"
should such action be called for.
U.S. Air Force General Joseph Ralston, NATO's
Supreme Commander in Europe
(Photo courtesy NATO)
But a team of scientists at the Lovelace
Respiratory Research Institute in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Wednesday unveiled a
study that found that DU of
the type used by the U.S. military can cause
cancer in laboratory animals.
Fletcher Hahn, a senior scientist on the project,
told the Reuters news
organization that the study represents a "warning
flag that we shouldn't
ignore."
Still, Hahn emphasized that the study "doesn't
mean that [DU] is
carcinogenic to humans."
Meanwhile, two international organizations today
announced that they may
take action to assist the World Health
Organization (WHO) team of
researchers, which is currently studying the
matter of DU use in the Persian
Gulf. The United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may launch "fact
finding missions" to the Balkan
region, their respective officials said.
UNEP officials will decide soon whether to
dispatch a team of researchers to
Bosnia Herzegovina for the purpose of studying the
public health and
environmental implications of the DU munitions
used there, officials said.
The IAEA is considering holding a training course
to help researchers in the
Balkan region to better understand the complex
measurement and assessment
methods associated with conducting analysis on
depleted uranium, officials
from the group said.
That is of little comfort to Francis Boyle, a
professor of international law
at the University of Illinois at
Urbanna/Champaign. Boyle, who consulted on
a 1994 documentary film that linked a host of
health effects to DU, said
that the IAEA was only getting involved in the
project to do "damage
control."
"The IAEA is a front organization for the nuclear
power industry, so you
can't believe anything they say," Boyle said. "It
is an unfortunate sign, in
my opinion, that the WHO and UNEP would be
coordinating anything with the
IAEA. They're going to try and cover this whole
thing up."
Boyle, like many critics, maintains that DU poses
far greater risks to
public health and the environment than the
Pentagon and NATO are letting on.
He said that DU munitions are teeming with
plutonium and other radionuclides
that should not be exempted from regulatory
oversight.
When DU munitions hit their targets, Boyle noted,
they typically release
particles which can contaminate air and nearby
water.
"Even a speck of plutonium can kill you," Boyle
noted. "But there's a lot
more in DU munitions than just depleted uranium,
and in any event, once it
vaporizes . and people are breathing it and eating
it, it kills people."
Boyle, like many others, believes that DU played a
causal role in mysterious
"Gulf War Syndrome" that affected tens of
thousands of veterans who fought
in that war.
The Pentagon flatly denies such charges.
Boyle and other legal experts have also long
maintained that DU munitions
are illegal under a host of international laws,
such as the Hague Convention
of 1907. The U.S. government is party to the
convention, which prohibits
weapons that are "unnecessary," as well as those
that cause cruel, long
lasting or uncontrollable effects.
Boyle argues that DU munitions are "unnecessary"
because weapons made with
another metal - tungsten - are equally as
effective. The Pentagon does not
use tungsten, Boyle said, because it would have to
pay for it.
"They get the DU for free, and this is basically a
question of money," Boyle
said. "DU is an unnecessary weapon."
The Geneva protocol of 1925, to which the U.S. is
also a signatory,
prohibits the use of radiation as a weapon, Boyle
noted. And a protocol to
the 1977 Geneva Convention contains a provision
that bans weapons and
techniques of warfare that cause severe, long term
environmental impacts, he
noted.
The U.S. is not a signatory to that agreement.
NATO has posted a detailed map on its website
showing where DU munitions
were targeted in Bosnia and Kosovo. The map can be
viewed at
http://www.nato.int
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