Tedd Weyman - Depleted Uranium Weapons Are Nuclear Weapons
This short interview with Tedd Weyman, the Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC), gives us an insight into what depleted uranium (DU) weapons actually represent. First of all, they are not 'safe' weapons. They are basically nuclear weapons, under a different guise, currently being used to dump excess western nuclear waste on Iraq and Afghanistan, as Weyman found out whilst leading major field studies into uranium contamination in both countries. Secondly they impact mostly on civilians, with many future Iraqi and Afghan generations bound to suffer massive rises in birth deformities and cancer, because, according to Weyman, depleted uranium contamination in the environment can be harmful for millions of years. Not to mention the homecoming soldiers, and the contamination they carry with them. So why do our governments and corporations continue to do this to other nations?
Depleted Uranium is a by-product which is produced when we make fuel for nuclear power reactors, and also when we make nuclear bombs. There is no safe way to dispose of this waste product, so we generally store it underwater or underground in containers. Western forces have also dropped a whole lot of DU over Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans
We still do not have a clear picture as to how badly we have already polluted the World. With a growing awareness of corporations being much more interested in profit, than in our environment or health, we must get an overall picture, and we must also find a 100% safe way of storing our most harmful types of waste
There are currently nine nations which hold operational nuclear warheads (United States, Russia, France, China, United Kingdom, Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea), and the United States also loans them out to Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey, through a NATO-approved 'Nuclear Sharing' scheme
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