EPISODE · Jun 5, 2006 · 44 MIN
P.I.D. Special: Karl Schwarz — Did US destroy nuke plant in Iraq?
from PID Radio · host Derek and Sharon Gilbert
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 — 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 — and possibly before — 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 — which is disturbing enough, because U-236 is only created inside nuclear reactors — or through the destruction of a working reactor.Show links:Karl Schwarz's home pageOperations EARNEST WILL, PRIME CHANCE, NIMBLE ARCHER, and PRAYING MANTISHigh levels of radioactive pollution seen in the south of IraqIs depleted uranium hurting the health of Iraqis and U.S. Gulf War veterans?
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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 — 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 — and possibly before — 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 — which is disturbing enough, because U-236 is only created inside nuclear reactors — or through the destruction of a working reactor.Show links:Karl Schwarz's home pageOperations EARNEST WILL, PRIME CHANCE, NIMBLE ARCHER, and PRAYING MANTISHigh levels of radioactive pollution seen in the south of IraqIs depleted uranium hurting the health of Iraqis and U.S. Gulf War veterans?
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P.I.D. Special: Karl Schwarz — Did US destroy nuke plant in Iraq?
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