Use of depleted Uranium is a form a radiologic warfare

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Caldicott, Helen ^a  

^a Nuclear Policy Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM 238; URANIUM;

AIR POLLUTION; ALPHA RADIATION; ARMY; BONE CANCER; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CANCER RISK; CELL DAMAGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DNA DAMAGE; EDITORIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LUNG CANCER; MUTAGENICITY; NEPHRITIS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TERATOGENICITY; UNITED STATES; URINARY EXCRETION; WATER CONTAMINATION; ATOMIC WARFARE; RADIATION INJURY; WEAPON;

HUMANS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION INJURIES; URANIUM; WEAPONS;

EID: 38449101932     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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