Geographer : US uranium weapons show contempt for nature

The US has no respect for nature or humankind in developing the brutalising weapons of war, said British architect and archaeologist Nicholas Wood. “Supported by the UK, the US thinks up, and uses, every conceivable terrible way of killing people with complete contempt for the joys of parenthood and childhood,” said Wood, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. “What are the Americans up to with their callous disregard for The Hague and Geneva Conventions in respect of long term damage to the environment?” he asked. Wood was speaking in an interview with IRNA following the publication of a new study that found the US has used novel enriched uranium weapons causing the high incidents of congenital anomaly and cancer in Fallujah, Iraq. Similar to the joint UK-Iraqi epidemiological report, he expressed grave concern that new uranium weapons causing lingering and long-term effects have been used by the US in other wars. 'I fear we are going to find the same things happening in Afghanistan and Libya when they start to clear up that mess,” the geographer said. “This state of affairs is so serious it must be referred to the United Nations,” he warned, also referring to other incidents in the Iraq war. Wood, who authored a book entitled 'War Crime or Just War? 2003 - 2005: The Iraq War,' spoke of the great importance to implement the 2009 agreement between Iran and Iraq to try to stop desert dust storms by spreading oil mulch on the sand. “This is especially urgent round destroyed tank dumps in southern Iraq and Baghdad, where radioactive levels in the sand and dust can be 30,000 times normal because of the depleted uranium munitions used since 1991,” he warned. “This radioactive dust has been blown as far north as Erbil, 700km away causing cows to give birth to deformed calves and causing rates of Leukaemia in children to be 40 times normal,” Wood said.