Re: [Know_Nukes] Depleted Uranium documentary

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Mercado, Don <don.mercado@LMCO.COM>

An: 'radsafe' <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Freitag, 14. Dezember 2001 17:47

Betreff: FW: [Know_Nukes] Depleted Uranium documentary





Anyone wish to comment?



> -----Original Message-----

> From: judmet2001 [SMTP:metni7@hotmail.com]

> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:01 AM

> To: Know_Nukes@yahoogroups.com

> Subject: [Know_Nukes] Depleted Uranium documentary

>

> Hello everyone,

>

> I am an independent documentary filmmaker in New York and

> hve recently completed a video dealing with depleted Uranium

> weapons.  The work places these weapons in an historical

> context of above-ground testing in the American west and the

> bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

>

> The video is entitled "Downwind: Depleted Uranium Weapons in

> the Age of Nuclear War".

>

> There are interviews with Carole Gallagher, Dr. Rosalie Bertell,

> Dan Fahey, Dr. Doug Rokke, James Der Derian, and Dr. Melissa

> McDiarmid.

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Are you sure, that this is not a hoax? I would believe that even Norman

Cohen or his genius Lochbaum would know that this is the worst nonsense I

ever heard or read of - I am serious. From the many experts mentioned -

sorry, I forgot the citation marks - I only know the name of Rosalie

Bertell. (Does it make her more credible by citing "Dr." in front of her

name? My experience is, that I never know of my American friends and

collegues, which title they have, because nobody would cite it.) I know the

stuff that Rosalie Bertell distributes, but is she really of the opinion

that DU was in the Trinity Test Bomb or the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?

Now I understand, that the efforts of isotopic separation of U-235 (+U-234)

from U-238 were directed to produce U-238 as pure as possible to be used in

atomic weapons!!!! Previously I thought it was the other way round and that

the USA desperately needs an application for depleted uranium (=waste!), so

they use it in uranium armored shells and tank armours. At least I was told

by several anti-nuclear groups.



Am I totally wrong, when I believe that the Trinity Bomb and the Nagasaki

Bomb were using Pu-239? I probably thought that only because all the

historical literature and thousands of reports and articles have been

falsified????



Wouldn't it be a good idea, if some states would help Yugoslavia to collect

the DU and then use it for their own nuclear weapons programmes? (You know,

which states I am thinking of.)



Norman, what do you think of this collegue of yours? Do you agree with him?



Franz









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