Karl W. B. Schwarz, author of One Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, joins us for a special interview about American involvement in Iraq and Iran. Not only have the United States been interfering in the internal affairs of both nations for a long, long time, our military may have destroyed a nuclear reactor in southern Iraq in the late 1980s.
Not Osirak, the reactor destroyed by Israel in 1981 \u2014 another one. And although depleted uranium may be responsible for a surge in birth defects in and around Basra over the last 15 years, is it significant that birth defects were on the rise in southern Iraq in 1991, immediately after \u2014 and possibly before \u2014 Gulf War I?
The question that should be asked is whether the U-236 discovered in the urine of sick Iraqis entered the environment through depleted uranium weapons \u2014 which is disturbing enough, because U-236 is only created inside nuclear reactors \u2014 or through the destruction of a working reactor.
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Operations EARNEST WILL, PRIME CHANCE, NIMBLE ARCHER, and PRAYING MANTIS
High levels of radioactive pollution seen in the south of Iraq
Is depleted uranium hurting the health of Iraqis and U.S. Gulf War veterans?