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Depleted Uranium and the ‘Liberation’ of Iraq: A Report from Hiroshima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Christian Scherrer
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On 2 March 2003 some 6,000 people from Hiroshima gathered on an empty space one kilometer from ground zero, where the first nuclear weapon killed hundreds of thousands and devastated the city, to form a message with their bodies, which read from the sky as NO WAR, NO DU!

Our warning was against war and the use of nuclear weapons by USA-UK forces. Our fear was based on the fact that the US has used illegal nuclear munitions and weapons containing Depleted Uranium (DU) and plutonium five times since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed on 6 and 9 August 1945.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , February 2004 , e5
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