Poison Dust is an American documentary

Documentary

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 starring Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark

William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson...

, Juan Gonzalez

Juan Gonzalez (journalist)

Juan González is an American progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter. He has also been a columnist for the New York Daily News since 1987...

, Rosalie Bertell, Helen Caldicott, Michio Kaku and directed by Sue Harris.

Plot

Documentary about U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who had been exposed to radioactive dust from dirty bomb

Dirty bomb

A dirty bomb is a speculative radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon is to contaminate the area around the explosion with radioactive material, hence the attribute "dirty"....

s when artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 shells coated with depleted uranium

Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium . Uses of DU take advantage of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3...

or DU are fired. Many suffer mysterious illnesses and have children with birth defects such as death.

Sources

• http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/207287.shtml
• http://www.wickedlocal.com/ashland/homepage/x639778392/Library-friends-film-series-tackles-uranium-weapons
• http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=1091
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477067
• http://www.workers.org/2006/us/poison-dust-0209
• http://www.womensradio.com/content/templates/default.aspx?a=231&z=11
• http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/poisondust_hoskins.htm