Depleted Uranium [DU]

[Oscar]

Sent for publishing on December 06, 2007

Depleted Uranium [DU]

To the Editor,

Alliant Techsystems [ATK] has its head office in Adina, Minnesota. It has 16,000 employees in 21 states, with revenues of $3.9 billion. The U.S. is the largest manufacturer of depleted uranium [DU] in the world, at almost 500 tonnes.[2002] It is followed closely by Russia. France manufactures less than half that amount. Britain, Germany, Japan, China, [smallest] manufacture less than 50 tonnes each [2002]

Approximately 208,000 American soldiers were either injured or killed in the Middle East wars of 1991 and 2003. Of that number 200,000 came home alive, many disabled, many with a myriad of medical problems. Only recently have the U.S. medical authorities admitted that DU was seriously affecting their own soldiers. It would be heartless for us to ignore how DU is probably also taking its toll on innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly children, now and in future generations. It should be a sobering thought for Canadians to face the grim facts that Canadian uranium particularly from Saskatchewan, is being marketed to countries that use the "waste" from nuclear power reactors to be sold or given away to manufacturers of depleted uranium.

To fully understand the long history and the decades of propaganda to sell nuclear power, one has to read retired professor Jim Harding's book, "Canada's Deadly Secret", just recently published. Practically every
sentence of his book is a detailed exposition and a stark declaration of the deviousness of its proponents, whose industry has been liberally subsidized by both federal and provincial governments.

Leo Kurtenbach,
Box 268, Cudworth, Sask., S0K 1B0.
Phone: 306-256-3638