Links Social Issues Uranium-238

Depleted Uranium (DU) or Uranium-238

Organizations fighting the use of Uranium-238 and information on its harm to human health, particularly in the dust form created by impact

Groups fighting DU-weapons use

Campaign Against Depleted Uranium, a UK group launched in 1999, seeks “a global ban on the manufacture, testing, and use of depleted uranium weapons.”  Good short history of DU.

DU Watch at UK-based Stop Nato has opinion articles and news articles.

Information and news

Depleted Uranium Education Project has documents and lists upcoming events.

Depleted Uranium Review: Review of Radioactivity, Military Use, and Health Effects of Depleted Uranium.  Compiled by Vladimir S. Zajic, July 1999.  His summary covers dangers well.  (Mirror of author’s Tripod site.)

BBC In Depth Depleted Uranium page.

Christian Science Monitor special section on DU, “Trail of a Bullet,” has all their articles on the subject (as of 2001-12-30, newest was 2001-01-18).

Yahoo News Full Coverage of Depleted Uranium Controversy (as of 2001-12-30, last updated 2001-08-29).

DU in Kosovo from Mother Jones.

DU information including military use from WISE (World Information Service on Energy, focusing on nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.

WHO fact sheet is vague on harm of radiation, and the World Health Organization downplays risks of exposure from military use, but has some basic facts on Uranium-238 characteristics.

DU page from the Federation of American Scientists has links to information, mostly from military sources.

Governments’ views

NATO Depleted Uranium sub-site insists link of negative health effects and DU weapons “extremely unlikely.”  Includes summary of WHO report on DU in Kosovo stressing lack of evidence and featuring strained reasons why risk should be low.