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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Depleted uranium
ISBN : UCBK:C119553398
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Toxicology,Committee on Toxicologic and Radiologic Effects from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309110365
Since the 1980s, the U.S. military has used depleted uranium in munitions and in protective armor on tanks. Depleted uranium is a toxic heavy metal and is weakly radioactive. Concerns have been raised about the adverse health effects from exposure to depleted uranium that is aerosolized during combat. Some think it may be responsible for illnesses in exposed veterans and civilians. These concerns led the Army to commission a book, Depleted Uranium Aerosol Doses and Risks: Summary of U.S. Assessments, referred to as the Capstone Report that evaluates the health risks associated with depleted uranium exposure. This National Research Council book reviews the toxicologic, radiologic, epidemiologic, and toxicokinetic data on depleted uranium, and assesses the Army's estimates of health risks to personnel exposed during and after combat. The book recommends that the Army re-evaluate the basis for some of its predictions about health outcomes at low levels of exposure, but, overall, the Capstone Report was judged to provide a reasonable characterization of the exposure and risks from depleted uranium.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030089326
The drastic health and environmental consequences of a new generation of radioactive weapons, Depleted Uranium (DU), currently being used in U.S.-waged wars are discussed in these essays. This new kind of nuclear war is examined alongside the effects on Vietnam and Gulf war veterans and the indigenous people on whose land these weapons are being tested. Among the issues covered are the collaborative military and media cover-up of DU, the government's denial of DU's toxic effects, uranium development on Native American land, nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands, and radioactive residue in the Middle East. Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Pat Broudy, and Helen Caldicott. Official government documents on DU and its effects and charts illustrating where DU is tested and stored in the United States are included for further examination.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-up Agency,Committee to Review the Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309175524
In January 1995 the Institute of Medicine released a preliminary report containing initial findings and recommendations on the federal government's response to reports by some veterans and their families that they were suffering from illnesses related to military service in the Persian Gulf War. The committee was asked to review the government's means of collecting and maintaining information for assessing the health consequences of military service and to recommend improvements and epidemiological studies if warranted. This new volume reflects an additional year of study by the committee and the full results of its three-year effort.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000058160022
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309119191
The 1991 Persian Gulf War was considered a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. A large number of returning veterans, however, soon began reporting health problems that they believed to be associated with their service in the gulf. Under a Congressional mandate, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is reviewing a wide array of biologic, chemical, and physical agents to determine if exposure to these agents may be responsible for the veterans' health problems. In a 2000 report, Gulf War and Health, Volume 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, and Vaccines, the IOM concluded that there was not enough evidence to draw conclusions as to whether long-term health problems are associated with exposure to depleted uranium, a component of some military munitions and armor. In response to veterans' ongoing concerns and recent publications in the literature, IOM updated its 2000 report. In this most recent report, Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium, the committee concluded that there is still not enough evidence to determine whether exposure to depleted uranium is associated with long-term health problems. The report was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Author : Tarek A. Kassim,Damià Barceló
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540879633
and used in munitions. Rather the requirements for the agent’s military effects took precedence. In addition, the interaction among the political, technical, and legal challenges connected with the known or possible risks posed by CW agents is complex and sometimes not well understood. This is usually because technical considerations, when acted on, are almost invariably informed by political ones, such as various legal requirements. The book contains nine chapters covering different aspects of the research on environmental consequences of war and its aftermath and covers in one additional chapter more general issues such as prevention of war and its environmental c- sequences, the legal, political, and technical background to selected environmental and human health effects of CW agents, and the atmospheric transport and depo- tion of persistent organic pollutants under warfare conditions to more specific ones related to two main tragic examples: the war in the Balkans and the Gulf War. Aspects of the war in the Balkans cover contamination by heavy metals in Serbian national parks, the impact of NATO strikes on the Danube river basin, and the problems associated with transuranium elements. The Gulf War in Kuwait covers other problems related to the impact of oil contamination, the impact on grou- water resources, and the soil damage of ground fortifications among other envir- mental and health problems.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031804032
Author : C. Miller Alexandra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781420004564
A compilation of published scientific information, including human, animal, cellular, and theoretical studies, Depleted Uranium: Properties, Uses and Health Consequences provides the most current and comprehensive collection of information on depleted uranium health hazards. The editor and her international panel of contributors are clinical and ba
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Radiation injuries
ISBN : 0854035745
"The first of two reports that the Royal Society has published examining the health effects of depleted uranium munitions ... Due to the lack of experimental data, the approach taken was to estimate the typical levels of exposure on the battlefield over a wide range of scenarios, and the 'worst-case' exposures that individuals are unlikely to exceed. These estimated values have then been used to assess the potential health risks from radiation. The report also considers epidemiological studies of occupational exposures to uranium in other situations as an independent source of information on the risks of inhaling DU particles, although it recognises that the parallels may not be precise. Part II deals with the risks from the chemical toxicity of uranium, non-malignant radiation effects from DU intakes, the long-term environmental consequences of the deployment of DU munitions and responses to Part I."--Web site.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : 9789280721461
This sudy is the second major contribution by UNEP to the scientific debate on the environmental risks and behaviour of DU associated with the use of depleted uranium wepons in a real combat situation.
Author : David McGowan
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909394926
An eye-opening and prophetic look at the true state of American politics and culture today. Is the U.S. a beacon of progress? That’s how the mainstream media want you to see it. But in Myth America, visionary researcher David McGowan presents an index of disturbing facts and ominous trends that illustrate the deep roots of America’s systems of oppression. From mandatory minimum sentencing laws to more liberal search-and-seizure rules, from Three Strikes You’re Out to congressional legislation for a national ID card, McGowan shows how the noose around democracy has been tightening every day for decades—if it ever existed in the U.S. at all. David McGowan is the author of the bestselling Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream. Myth America was his first book, originally published in 2000 under the title Derailing Democracy.
Author : William Schabas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521787904
The 1948 Genocide Convention has suddenly become a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. The succinct provisions of the Convention are now being interpreted in important judgements by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and a growing number of domestic courts. In this definitive work William A. Schabas focuses on the judicial interpretation of the Convention, debates in the International Law Commission, political statements in bodies like the General Assembly of the United Nations, and the growing body of case law. Detailed attention is given to the concept of protected groups, to the quantitative dimension of genocide, to problems of criminal prosecution including defenses and complicity, and to issues of international judicial cooperations such as extradition. He also explores the duty to prevent genocide, and the consequences this may have on the emerging law of humanitarian intervention.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309217583
Many veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have health problems they believe are related to their exposure to the smoke from the burning of waste in open-air "burn pits" on military bases. Particular controversy surrounds the burn pit used to dispose of solid waste at Joint Base Balad in Iraq, which burned up to 200 tons of waste per day in 2007. The Department of Veterans Affairs asked the IOM to form a committee to determine the long-term health effects from exposure to these burn pits. Insufficient evidence prevented the IOM committee from developing firm conclusions. This report, therefore, recommends that, along with more efficient data-gathering methods, a study be conducted that would evaluate the health status of service members from their time of deployment over many years to determine their incidence of chronic diseases.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015090407159
