Attack on Iran would result in India feeling nuked:
Moret

by Dhananjay Khadilkar

Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:54:00 PM

MUMBAI: Attack on Iran would be nothing short of a low
level nuclear war against India. That's the opinion
of Leuren Moret, a former scientist at the Livermore
nuclear laboratory, who was here for a conference.

Talking to DNA, Moret said that if the US attacks
Iran, then India would bear its disastrous
consequences in the form of uranium oxide particles
which would remain suspended over the northern part of
the country.

According to Moret, it won't take more than two days
for the uranium particles to reach India. Egypt, the
Middle East, Central Asia and Pakistan too would get
affected, she added.

Moret stated that the population staying in this
region would become vulnerable to diseases like cancer
and diabetes. Terming the suspended Uranium particles
as DNA time bomb, she said that because of the
affinity of a phosphate in human DNA towards uranium,
these particles destroy the DNA. Thus the disastrous
effects of depleted Uranium won't be limited to one
generation only.

According to Moret, depleted uranium is the Trojan
horse of nuclear war. "It is the ultimate weapon of
mass destruction," she added. The pyrophoric nature
of depleted uranium causes it to burn at very low
temperatures.

This makes it an ideal radioactive gas weapon. "Once
it gets vapourised, microscopic particles of Uranium
oxide remain suspended and form the radioactive
component of dust," Moret said.

Moret added that depleted uranium was introduced for
the first time in the Gulf War in 1991. Extensive
carpet bombing in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan
has already resulted in radioactive pollution over
areas in Asia and Europe.

Moret further said that the amount of low-level
radioactive pollution from depleted uranium since 1991
is equivalent to at least 4,00,000 Nagasaki bombs.

She said that the mysterious illnesses and post-war
birth defects reported among Gulf War veterans and
civilians in Iraq, and radiation related illnesses in
UN Peacekeepers serving in Yugoslavia is a testimony
to the dangers posed by depleted uranium.

Original article:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1080179

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