If this is true, then we have two clouds to worry about and neither are sensed by the naked eye, nor ear, nor nose.
The closer of the two "clouds" is with us today. It is Depleted Uranium, DU, 1000 tons of which have been dropped on Afghanistan, and at least
2200 tons dropped on Iraq.
DU is U238, 99.5% of what is left over "waste" when U235, less than .5% of "natural" Uranium, the business end of nuclear weapons, is extracted
from "natural" Uranium.
The fact that DU is still a highly toxic material is diluted and disguised by the term "Depleted".
The half life for DU is 4.5 Billion Years, older than our planet.
It is used as armor on tanks, heavy guns, airplane wings, and bullets and bombs of all sizes. It is a heavy metal, twice the weight of lead and is
used to harden munitions for better proficiency in penetration power.
The problem arises when DU explodes or ignites. The DU escapes in a cloud with nano-sized (billionth of a meter) particles in gaseous form which,
when inhaled, begins the onslaught of radiation poisoning, for which there is no antidote. The DU is carried on the wind with a almost immediate
contamination area 1000 miles around Kabul and Baghdad.
The desert winds will eventually carry the DU around the globe. All of us are wearing targets on our backs.
The United States has known since 1942 that DU was a weapon of mass destruction and there was a contingency plan in the Manhattan Project to use DU as
a weapon in the event the atomic bomb failed.
When one Alfa or Beta particle is inhaled by any living creature, it enters the cellular structure and acts like a mini nuclear bomb. DU is
omnicidal--it kills all living things, penetrating both plant and animal, the food chain and the water supply.
Of all the tonnage dropped so far on Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been calculated by physicists that the DU contamination is the equivalent result of
40,000 Hiroshima Bombs. That bomb was calculated to be equivalent to 15 Kilo Tons, or 15 thousand tons of TNT. So, multiply that by 40K.....
The alternative to DU is Tungsten Steel. But the powers to be decided that was too expensive to use as a munitions hardener, not realizing the true
expense of the results of using DU as a weapon of mass destruction.
www.awakenedwoman.com...
Thousands of Gulf War 1 veterans who had a relatively short stay in the predominantly rural areas of contamination had tested positive for radiation
poisoning. Those spending months and years in Baghdad and surrounding towns during heavy shelling are currently being exposed to DU. On the first
day of the war when "shock and awe" was underway in what is now the Green Zone of Baghdad, many tons of DU were targeted at Saddam's palaces, now
occupied by the command and control of the war in Iraq.
So, which cloud do you prefer?
John McCarthy
Chairman of The Board of VERPA
Veterans Equal Rights Protection Advocacy
www.verpa.org...
Blog:
www.jenmartinez.com...
Email: jmac1369@earthlink.net
[Edited on 27-5-2004 by John McCarthy]
[Edited on 27-5-2004 by John McCarthy]
[Edited on 27-5-2004 by John McCarthy]