The Toxic Legacy of NATO’s Depleted Uranium Weapons

NATO Uranium Truce

RT (2024)

Film Review

This film explores the aftereffects of tens of thousands of depleted uranium (DU) cruise missiles, air bombs and shells NATO deployed during their war on Serbia in the late1990s. In numerous Serbian villages, numerous villages nearly everyone dies of a cancer and few live to reach old age. Birth defects are also drastically increased.

Based on thousands of DU studies, both in Serbia and Iraq (where NATO also deployed DU), a cancer specialist asserts its use constitutes a war crime.

Ironically NATO troops have also experienced a high incidence of cancer (mainly leukemia and brain tumors) related to to DU exposure. Commissions appointed by Italy and Greece to study the phenomenon estimate that, of 30,000 NATO troops deployed in the Bosnian and Serbian wars, 10,000-18,000 have died of cancer linked to DU exposure. Five hundred Italian NATO troops have filed a class action suit against the NATO command, with Czech, Spanish, Greek and Belgian NATO veterans ready to join them.

An Italian lawyer who estimates 8,000 Italian EU troops suffer from DU-linked cancer has won 350 DU-related cases. Despite this clear proof that DU-coated bombs and shells are dangerous, the NATO command continues to use it in Ukraine. A Serbian lawyer is filing a similar case against the NATO command, demanding that they clean up all the shells and bomb casings that continue to contaminate Serbia water supply and food chain.

Serbia has also appointed a commission to investigate the 20-30% increase in birth defects, miscarriages and stillbirths in Serbian livestock.

Despite the hundreds of NATO soldiers who have died prematurely from exposure to DU dust, no NATO member country acknowledges how dangerous it is – despite a 1973 Florida studying revealing DU weapons tests contaminated the soil with radioactive nanoparticles.

A German documentary about the Iraqi doctor who first discovered in 1991 that American DU weapons were causing high levels of birth defects was banned after a single screening.

The International Atomic Energy Agency denies that DU affects human health. In the film, the current IAEA president Rafael Gross makes the following gobbledygook explanation on camera:

“There may be isolated cases of people inhaling particles causing a health issue of a normal nature rather than a radiologic issue.”

Thousands of Iraqi  veterans who were diagnosed with leukemia and neurodegenerative diseases (known as Gulf War Syndrome) tried, unsuccessfully, to file a case with the International Court of Justice.

As of 2011, all US GIs are required to sign an agreement not to enter areas affected by DU bombs or shells. Those who fail to honor this agreement, can be denied compensation if they later develop cancer or neurodegenerative disease.*

*Like they’re given a choice? GIs who fail to follow orders in combat are shot.

Film link: https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1361-nato-uranium-trace

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