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Sunday, 18 February 2007 |
Attack On Iran Will Hit India Most Says Scientist
- 'An American
geoscientist has warned that India is "downwind" of Iran and
is, therefore, predisposed to the harmful, radiation-laded winds that will
blow eastwards if the United States were to attack Iran using depleted
uranium in dirty bombs or bunker busters like it did in 2003 in Iraq. A
bunker buster is said to contain about two tonnes of depleted uranium.
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- Ms Leuren Moret, a former employee of the Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Laboratory in the US, who now works as an independent activist
on the use of depleted uranium, warned of the health and environmental
effects of the use of depleted uranium by the US in armour-piercing shells,
which will have disastrous consequences for generations of Indians to come.'
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