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The Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1997 to provide objective and expert scientific and medical research into the effects of uranium, transuranium elements, and radionuclides produced by the process of uranium decay and fission. UMRC is also a registered charity in the United States and Canada.

Vision: UMRC's vision for the world is a full awareness of the risks of using nuclear products and by-products AND to contain the still reversible alterations of the earth's biosphere since the advent of nuclear events and the resulting contamination.
There needs to be an appreciation of the enormous effects and damage of uranium on the environment and human health. Governments, scientific communities, and the general public need to understand the many forms of contamination and specific effects. Continued abuses of uranium and radioisotopes will only lead to the steady degradation and eventual end of meaningful life on earth.

Notable reports:

The Low Level Radiation Campaign

The LLRC is a leader in the DU activism field, as it falls into their field of interest. This group of scientists, researchers and activists believes low-level radiation is a potent danger that needs to be acknowleged by governments, industy and the military.

Recommended!

'Depleted' Uranium and Casualties of the Gulf Wars
an educational campaign providing resources on radioactive, chemical and biological weapons

Traprock Peace Center maintains an impressive collection of resources and links to information on depleted uranium, thanks to the exceptional efforts of Charles Jenks.

Depleted Uranium Burning

DEPLETED URANIUM BURNING: AN E T E R N A L MEDICAL DISASTER
Issues on the Use and Effects of an ILLEGAL RADIATION Weapon

A Website from Holland that maintains a regularly updated set of links to content strongly opposing the use of DU. Much of the content is created by the site owners, or reposted from other sources. Warning: This site makes heavy use of birth defect photos.

Depleted Uranium Education Project

The International Action Center, founded by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, is an antiwar group that maintains an information center about weaponized uranium at this Depleted Uranium Education Project page.

The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU) was launched in 1999 to focus specifically on trying to achieve a global ban on the manufacture, testing, and use of depleted uranium weapons.

www.BanDepletedUranium.org

PETITION

An European grassroots group seeking a ban on DU weapons. They have an online petition which has gathered over 4000 signatures. Click the graphic immediately to the left to visit and sign the petition right now.

ICBUW's membership includes 85 groups in 22 countries worldwide.

International Depleted Uranium Study Team - probably used to be the hotbed of anti-DU activism! This site is not as active as it used to be, but continues to be a primary source of articulate and scientific resistance to DU.

IDUST is a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) of international researchers, activists and scientists dedicated to stopping the use of Depleted Uranium U-238 (DU) in military weapons by the year 2010.

The establishment of IDUST represents a timely and urgently important targeted expansion of alliance-building, education, research and outreach efforts. IDUST builds on the foundation of knowledge skills gathered, and work accomplished over the past 15 years by it's team members.

From About IDUST.

GulfWarVets.com

Includes the following reports and much, much more. Very up-to-date as of 2007. Recommended!

“Depleted uranium kills our troops” billboard in Montana
"Depleted Uranium: Pernicious Killer Keeps on Killing" by Craig Etchison, Ph.D. (Feb. 19, 2007)
"CNN News Video on Depleted Uranium and Iraqi troops" Do US troops know about the dangers of depleted uranium? CNN's Greg Hunter reports (Feb. 5, 2007)
"Uranium 'killing Italian troops" Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say. (Jan. 10, 2007)

Nukewatch has a collection of DU pages with a lot of information, much of it current.

This page features a collection of links to articles published mostly between 2003 and 2005, many from NukeWatch's own Pathfinder magazine.

Their Factsheet is here.

Concord Grassroots Actions for Peace
Recommended!

This group, Concord Grassroots Actions for Peace maintains a superb Campaign to Stop the Manufacture and Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons. They've been on the case for many years in fact. They are action-oriented and provide information to help you directly voice your opinion to legislators regarding anti-DU bills (Yes, there are some!) and other matters. Please check out their Actions section.

Their list of recent DU news is currently being updated regularly (Summer 06). View it here: DU News Articles

Be sure to view both the Contents page and Resources page.

This nuclear issues group from Netherlands has an extensive collection of DU publications and resources.

From the Web site intro:

Since spring 1992, one of Laka's main projects is the depleted uranium issue. The documentation center contains about 10,000 articles, many international documentaries and almost one hundred books on this issue. ... Laka is considered widely to be one of the most important sources for information in Europe on depleted uranium. In 2003 Laka was one of the organisations which took the initiative for the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons.

Coalition to Ban Depleted Uranium

The Legislation page at Coalition to Ban Depleted Uranium should be seen by anyone concerned about legally stopping the use of DU armaments.