Other pages on Depleted Uranium and other Uranium weapons
Now (as of 2006) we use the term Weapons-Derived Uranium (WDU)

A scientific paper published in Conflict and Health pins blame for congenital defects on US uranium weapon attacks

Le Monde article on birth defects in Falluja - scene of US uranium weapon attacks

Secondary Photoelectron effect - The missing link, explaining how Uranium can have serious health effects despite its very low intrinsic radioactivity. This may be our most important scientific contribution to the debate on low level radiation and health.

Uranium "guilty" verdict WDU in Gulf War One caused fatal cancer in British soldier 17 years later.

UNEP misrepresentation Untruths, misdirection and spin over the nature of the Uranium they found in Lebanon.

WISE (World Information Service on Energy) Nuclear Monitor #650 makes an unwise attack over Uranium in Lebanon, but apologises

United Nations Environment Programme pull another whitewash. Failure to find Uranium in Lebanon due to using wrong instruments.

Enriched Uranium confirmed in Lebanon. How to detect Uranium in environmental samples - a cheap method for the concerned

Was there enriched Uranium in Israeli bombs used in Lebanon conflict (summer 2006)?

UNEP's Lebanon reports UNEP has an unfortunate habit of whipping material off its web site. We are keeping it to allow continued access.

The smoking gun - how isotopic ratios can reveal the use of Uranium in weapons

DU (or was it Undepleted Uranium?) from American bombing in Gulf War II (2003) crossed Europe and reached Britain's Home Counties in 9 days. Full report.

DU link to intense leukaemia cluster in Nevada - which nukes try to dismiss as due to population mixing

Leuren Moret article on DU effects

LLRC response to Dan Fahey's SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION? Facts, Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dan Fahey; March 12, 2003 with correspondence between LLRC and Fahey (The Fahey report can be read at: http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/pdf/dumyths.pdf)

Anti-DU activist Professor Doug Rokke (a first Gulf War veteran) describes the use of DU weapons as "illegal" ... and so do we.

Response to UNEP In November 2000 the United Nations Environment Programme "investigated" DU in Kosovo. Their whitewash was published 13th March 2001

This preliminary response has the main point - that even though they completely failed to look for airborne DU, they still managed, unwittingly, to find it ...

... as we did in the Iraq desert, ten years after the Gulf War

Science on Trial a Paper presented to the Royal Society's Working Group on Depleted Uranium (July 2000). In this affair, it is not DU that is on trial. The Trial is of Science itself .. and of the Royal Society.

Radioactive Times report on the Royal Society Working Group

LLRC is invited back to the Royal Society (12th March 2001)

Royal Society report, May 2001

Top radiation biologists' warnings on DU particles

a lay person's explanation of how the authorities could be so wrong about DU.

Landmines in your lymph nodes - an illustration of why ceramic radioactive particles are so dangerous.

Official ignorance of radiation doses - NRPB attempts a cover-up

Is it too soon to see leukaemia caused by DU in the Balkans? We think not.

Cancer epidemic in Sarajevo

LLRC response to MoD consultation on screening veterans

MoD tries again to answer criticism and LLRC's response

How the tests should be done

MEDACT looked into DU in 1999 - LLRC's submissions

LLRC's letter in the Lancet