Moret and Marion Fulk visiting friends in Japan |
Leuren Moret's bio (contributed
to DUBBS.info by email)
- Leuren Moret was an Expert Witness at the International Criminal Tribunal
For Afghanistan At Tokyo.
- She is an independent scientist and international expert on radiation
and public health issues.
- She is on the organizing committee of the World Committee on Radiation
Risk, an organization of independent radiation specialists, including
members of the Radiation Committee in the EU parliament, the European
Committee on Radiation Risk.
- She is an environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley.
- Ms. Moret earned her BS in geology at U.C. Davis in 1968 and her MA
in Near Eastern studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978.
- She has completed all but her dissertation for a PhD in the geosciences
at U.C. Davis. She has traveled and conducted scientific research in
42 countries.
- She contributed to a scientific report on depleted uranium for the
United Nations sub commission investigating the illegality of depleted
uranium munitions.
- Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and retired insider
at the Livermore Lab, who is an expert on radioactive fallout and rainout,
has trained her on radiation issues.
- Leuren Moret has conducted research concerning the impact on the health
of the environment and global public health from atmospheric testing,
nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium.
- She has helped collect and measure radiation in 6000 baby teeth from
children living around nuclear power plants, and helped The State of
Louisiana (USA) pass the first state depleted uranium bill for mandatory
testing of soldiers.
- Articles she wrote on DU were translated into Indian languages to
increase awareness.
- Her article "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War" in
the June 2004 WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL was translated at the request of
the Kremlin for distribution throughout the Russian government.
- The LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, hometown newspaper of President Bush, interviewed
her for a series of interviews, "What is depleted uranium?", which are
now attached to US Congressman McDermott's
2005 depleted uranium bill HR 2410 in the US Congress.
- Her City of Berkeley 2003 resolution banning weapons in space was
followed by a Space Preservation Treaty Resolution adopted by seven
sister cities in British Columbia, Canada, contributing to Prime Minister
Paul Martin's decision in February 2005 to abandon his secret agreement
with President Bush to allow NMD in Canada.
- Her research on divestment of pension funds from US weapons manufacturers
was discussed on a Vancouver radio station in April 2005. The interview
helped to make divestment, of $4.6 billion (in 251 US weapons manufacturers)
in British Columbia (BC) pension funds, an issue for the May 2005 election
platform in BC.
- Leuren Moret is a Livermore nuclear weapons lab whistleblower, an
Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, and testifies as
a depleted uranium expert in the new documentary film BEYOND TREASON.
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