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Featured ResourcesThe Dirtiest Dozen Corporations - Partners in Mass DestructionList of Weapons Manufacturers Around the World Featured Organizations The International Coalition Against Uranium Weapons was formed on October 13th, 2003, after a conference in Berlaar, Belgium, where grassroots organisations and experts in several disciplines launched an international campaign for a ban on the military use of uranium and other radioactive materials in weaponry. Did You Know?Radioactive and chemically toxic weapons (like Depleted Uranium weapons) were first used on a large scale by the US and the UK in the Gulf War in 1991, subsequently in Bosnia and Yugoslavia by NATO, and again in the war on Iraq by the US and the UK in 2003. - International Coalition to Ban Uanium WeaponsDepleted Uranium has a half-life of 4.5 Billion years Related WiserEarth Portals |
Quote"Which is worse, flash annihilation by nuclear explosions, or slow mutilation from low-level radiation, the result of radioactive contamination of the air, water and earth essential to life? Globally, we have been deceived about the health effects of radiation by bureaucratized governments informed by the military industrial complex and scientific power. In the past half-century, 1.3 billion people have been killed, maimed, and diseased by nuclear weapons and nuclear power." —Leuren Moret
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