United States, Support UN Resolutions on Depleted Uranium Weapons!

  • by: Susan V
  • recipient: US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power

A report by Truth Out exposes Navy documents showing that as much as 34 tons of depleted uranium could be lying on the seabed off the Washington State coast alone. However the Navy doesn’t feel the need to clean up this contamination.

Even worse, we’re not really sure the Navy has stopped using ammunition containing depleted uranium in its offshore war games, and the Army just admitted to firing DU weaponry in Syria last year.

The TO report provides evidence that the Navy is not being honest about the short or long-term effects of DU contamination on marine life or its claim to have discontinued using DU ammo in offshore exercises.

According to a spokesperson with the Navy Region Northwest’s public affairs office, the DU ammo left on seabeds “are extremely stable in sea water and pose no greater threat than any other metal.” But this claim is strongly opposed by an expert on heavy metal contamination who says DU exposure is known to have serious negative impacts on fish and mammals, including humans. Furthermore, says TO, a study the Navy uses to support its claims of no environmental impact from DU on seabeds, is seriously flawed and “heavily disputed.”

According to the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, 146 states voted in favor of the United Nations’ recent resolution on DU weapons. The US, along with the UK, France and Israel voted against it.

Sign the petition to insist the US join the other 146 states supporting UN resolutions on depleted uranium.

To US Ambassador Samantha Power:


The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons says that with the recent admission that the US fired DU in Syria last year, “concern over the health and environmental consequences of the use of the weapons is once again on the international agenda.”


A number of UN member states recently affected by conflcits are understandably concerned about the short and long-term effects of the use of these DU weapons on civilians. The UN Resolutions address the biggest problem with protecting civilians post-conflict, being that “there are no formal obligations, on either those countries that use the weapons, or are affected by them, to clear them after conflicts.”


The UN’s most recent Resolution is not even seeking to ban DU’s says ICBUW, but it is asking for an accounting of where they were used and recognition that most countries are opposed to their use. ICBUW adds that one of its recent reports shows “that more than half the DU fired by the US is still unaccounted for, and that the refusal of the US to release data to UN agencies hampered their post-conflict assessments."


ICBU adds that it is “true to form” that “just four states voted against” the resolution text. "The US, UK, France and Israel remain the only four governments to continuously oppose the resolutions."


There is to be another vote in December this year, and I, the undersigned and others who support this petition, insist the US join the majority of states in supporting this latest resolution on DU weaponry.


Thanks for your time.




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