Robert Anderson is the Author of this book.
By using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) weaponry against Iraq, the US and Britain have gravely endangered not only the Iraqi people, but the whole world. The devastating damage DU will do to the health and fertility of the people of Iraq now and for generations to come is horrendous. It is a crime against humanity, which historians may rank with the worst atrocities of all time.
Military veterans and civilian populations in war zones are on DU death row. British radiation expert, Dr Chris Busby, said: "I'm horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from DU can travel literally anywhere. It's going to destroy the lives of thousands of children all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales; in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."
Journalist, Robert Fisk, says the story in Iraq that most correspondents chose not to report was the "bomb now, die later" policy through use of depleted uranium. Since the Gulf war of 1991, the number of cancer patients has risen, and "strange vegetables" have begun to appear on the market. The distortions were most likely to have been caused by the use of DU.
