Issue 406 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
November 2007
Depleted Uranium: the poisoned legacy
When a depleted uranium (DU) munition hits a tank, it punctures its armour with ease and vapourizes into a fireball, causing total destruction. Lethal and effective, it’s no wonder that DU weapons have been used by US, British and NATO forces in recent conflicts. But has anyone measured the human cost? This month's NI explores a terrain of denial and neglect.
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A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash written and directed by *Basil Gelpke*, *Ray McCormack*
Guilt complex
We feel guilty about what we do (flying, driving a car) and about what we don’t do (not making that demo, not recycling enough...
Toxic souvenirs
Will the whole truth about depleted uranium ammunition ever come out? It depends on who’s looking, discovers *Dinyar Godrej*.
Hold Everything Dear – Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Hold Everything Dear – Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by *John Berger*
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