New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

All these images are terrible, but it doesn&#x27;t match my understanding of radioactivity. I thought the lessons learned from Hiroshima and Nagazaki was that radioactivity was causing very few mutations (far less than expected), but instead was causing mainly sterilities. I am not an expert, but teratogene effects are generally caused by chemical products. If uranium is similar to lead, it should cause neurologic diseases, not this kind of pictures.<p>I do not want to minimize the consequences of war, but this article has no plausibility.

Living in Vietnam, I see kids on the street clearly suffering from the effects of agent orange, all the time.

With a “half-life of 4.5 billion years” does that mean these areas are going to be permanent toxic waste lands?<p>Regardless why isn’t there a growing movement to call the perpetrators of this war criminals?

I don&#x27;t like articles this blatantly manipulative; it is an unfortunate character flaw if anyone thinks the most important part of a military invasion are photos of 10s of mutated children.<p>This particular instance is horrible but also unimportant. The US killed literally thousands of civilians when they invaded in 2003. There is a long, long list of worse things that the US military has done; even ignoring anything prior to the Iraq invasion in 2003.

Looks like depleted uranium bullets probably have similar to effects to lead bullets.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miningawareness.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-toxicity-of-depleted-uranium-du&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miningawareness.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-toxicit...</a>

And this is why China is hated passionately in the West. Because it is the only credible potential deterrence in the future against the West doing whatever they want on whomever the want (outside their territories that is). It is of course possible that China itself will turn into another hegemonic military power with scant regard for non-Chinese lives the way the US has been for decades, but nevertheless in a multi-polar world it will be more problematic to simply invade whichever country you wish, when other significant powers have economic&#x2F;geopolitical interests in those countries.