The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children (2004)

The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children (2004)

Mostly English and German with English subtitles

An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn.

The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations.

It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children.

Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.

This film documents the widespread use of depleted uranium rounds by coalition forces in both Gulf Wars, as well as in the Balkans.

It serves to show us just what kind of damage these munitions can do, most of which are made with cheap unwanted waste from western nuclear power plants.

Many thousands of the American and British soldiers which served during either Gulf War have been subsequently diagnosed with the mysterious 'Gulf War Syndrome', and this film, with the help of Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther and Tedd Weyman (from the Uranium Medical Research Center - UMRC), aims to shed some light on the origins of that condition.

Gulf War Syndrome can be traced back to the bombs that these soldiers were handling during their combat time, and now the tanks which they blew up with those very bombs, are being played in by young Iraqi kids.

In both the Balkans, and in Iraq, there have been massive rises in cancer and deformities in the newborn, amongst the local populations, since the US, UK et al dropped thousands of tonnes of depleted uranium bombs on their countries.

There have also been massive rises in the very same conditions within the families of those US/UK war veterans too.