- How absurd is it that we have the government on the one
hand pulling back from using a hollowed out mountain in Nevada to store
nuclear waste because of a fear (legitimate I grant) that hundreds or thousands
of years hence, some earthquake or other catastrophe could cause the stored
waste to leak into the water table, while on the other hand we have this
same government deliberately taking some of the most dangerous waste--the
actual uranium from the used fuel rods--and putting it into bombs, shells
and bullets to be splattered and burned all across the landscape?
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- And I should note that it's not just remote places like
Iraq and Kuwait and Afghanistan that are being covered in super toxic and
radioactive uranium dust--and I'm not just talking about the stuff that
gets picked up in the wind and carried around the globe, or the stuff that
gets inhaled by our troops and carried home internally, bad enough as that
is.
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- The truth is that depleted uranium weapons are being
exploded and burned right here in the USA in training operations. The center
of Hawaii's Big Island, for example, which is a military zone, is heavily
contaminated by DU ammunition fired by tanks there. The same is true of
Vieques Island, long a favored target for the Navy, which for years has
fired DU shells from its ships at the populated island, and also launched
DU-tipped missiles and dropped DU-loaded "bunker-buster" bombs
at it.
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- While I don't have direct knowledge, I'd say it's a safe
bet that there are a number of sites on the Mainland US where DU munitions
have also been widely used--maybe White Sands Proving Ground the Marine
training area near Joshua Tree National Monument in Southern California,
or other such training and testing areas...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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