I'm an environmental scientist. My Ph.D. research was on
atmospheric dusts, and how they move,
and are transported around the world,
how much of our pollution now is transported in less than
a week from Asia on and with atmospheric dusts.
Thirty-four percent of mercury pollution in the United States
is from Asia.
Truly, we're globally one environment. So, when you're doing things
in one country, eventually it's going to end up in your country too,
no matter how many continents or oceans separate you.
In this memo, I was just astounded to read it because it's actually
a blueprint for depleted uranium.
This is in 1943, before they'd even dropped the bomb on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. And actually, the three physicists who wrote the memo
where the top physicists on the Manhattan Project —
Conant, Urey, and Compton.
And what they recommended to General Groves was that he develop
radioactive materials, including depleted uranium,
into a military weapon that could be used on the battlefield.
In the details of their memos they described grinding it to up to
0.1µ - which is very, very fine particles.
This is smaller than bacteria. It would behave like a gas.
It diffuses into the lungs and gets into the blood.
It completely contaminates the environment and denies access
to both the enemy and friendly forces without being exposed.
It also said that it goes through gas masks.
It goes through filters — air filters. It's impossible to filter
it out — the very fine particles.
And there is no protective clothing that can be designed
to protect you from exposure.
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