Mabomba okwera kwambiri komanso kuukiridwa kwa zida zakutali nthawi zonse kumabweretsa maloto owopsa a ana akufa ndi omenyera nkhondo omwe akufuna kudzipha. Zolinga za purezidenti zakugwedeza dziko lina lapakati chakum'mawa popanda chilolezo cha UN zikutsimikiziridwa ndikuwonetsa zoyipa zomwe ena adachita - pakadali pano olamulira aku Syria.
Kukulitsa nkhondo yapakati pa Iran ndi Saudi Arabia yomwe ikuchitikira ku Syria kubweretsa tsoka. Gen. Martin Dempsey, wapampando wa Joint Chiefs of Staff amadziwa izi ndipo watsutsa mwamphamvu ngakhale kulowererapo kochepa ku Syria.
Purezidenti Oh-bomb-ah adzatcha "kumenya kwake molondola" chilango cholungama chifukwa cha mlandu wogwiritsa ntchito zida za mankhwala, koma izi zidzakhala zolemera kuposa Vatican. Choyipa kwambiri kuposa mphika wotcha ketulo wakuda, ndi napalm kutcha uranium yomwe yathayo kuti ndi poizoni.
Mmodzi mwa anthu omwe amawononga kwambiri zida zankhondo padziko lapansi
Palibe dziko padziko lapansi lomwe lili ndi mlandu wogwiritsa ntchito mankhwala ngati zida zankhondo kuposa United States, ngakhale motsutsana ndi anthu ake.
National Cancer Institute inaulula mu 1997 kuti 90 (ya 235) kuyesa mabomba a nyukiliya ku US kunatulutsa 150 miliyoni curies ya ayodini-131 makamaka pakati pa 1952 ndi 1957. NCI inapeza kuti anthu onse a 160 miliyoni ku US panthawiyo anali oipitsidwa ndi wailesi. - ayodini. Kafukufukuyu adanena kuti pakati pa 25,000 ndi 75,000 khansa ya chithokomiro idzachititsa US ndipo 10 peresenti ya iwo idzapha. Bungwe la Institute for Energy and Environmental Research linachenjeza kuti chiลตerengero chapamwamba cha โ75,000 nโchomveka, chifukwa kuyerekezera kwapansi kumalingalira kuti mlingo wa ma radiation amkati a ayodini-131 ndi โochepa kwambiri ngati gawo limodzi mwa magawo asanu angoziโ mofanana ndi mlingo wofanana wa ma radiation akunja. . Lingaliro ili ndi lokayikitsa kwambiri, osati lochokera pazambiri za anthu, komanso silikuteteza thanzi la anthu. โ
Ku Vietnam, kuyambira 1962 mpaka 1969, US idapopera poizoni wopitilira 100 miliyoni ngati Agent Orange pa maekala mamiliyoni anayi. Nkhondo yathu yamankhwala idawononga maekala opitilira 460,000 a mbewu ndipo lero bungwe la Red Cross la Vietnamese likuwerengera ana 150,000 omwe kubadwa kwawo kunachitika chifukwa cha kukhudzana kwa makolo awo ndi Agent Orange yekha. Akuti pafupifupi matani 388,000 a mafuta athu opangidwa ndi mankhwalaโnapalmโanaponyedwa ku SE Asia pakati pa 1963 ndi 1973, poyerekeza ndi matani 32,357 amene anagwiritsidwa ntchito ku Korea pazaka zitatu, ndipo matani 16,500 anagwera ku Japan mu 1945.
Mu 1991, oposa 400 matani a zida za "depleted" za uranium (DU) adathamangitsidwa ku Iraq ndi Kuwait panthawi ya Gulf War. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists inanena kuti zipolopolo za 940,000 Air Force 30-mm DU ndi 4,000 Army 120-mm DU anti-tank zipolopolo zidathamangitsidwa. โMabasi akasinjaโ okhawo anali ndi matani 25 a uranium. Matani ena a 170 adagwiritsidwa ntchito pophulitsa bomba komanso kulanda dziko la Iraq mu 2003.
M'mawu ake oyamba mu buku la 2003 Ulamani watha, Peter Low akunena za kugwiritsiridwa ntchito kwa zida zapoizoni zimenezi: โAnthu amene anafalitsa matani 400 a DU kumeneko [Kummwera kwa Iraq] mu 1991 anali kuyesa mtundu wachilendo kwambiriโmโmene โmbwaliโ zinali. Asilikali ndi anthu wamba omwe analipoโฆndipo omwe โoyesaโ sanafune kudziwa zotsatira zake.โ Lipoti la World Health Organisation lapeza kuwonjezeka kwakukulu kwa kubadwa kwachilendo kum'mwera kwa Iraq komwe DU yathu idagwiritsidwa ntchito kwambiri. Madokotala pachipatala cha amayi aku Basra adauza BBC kuti awona kuchuluka kwa 60 peresenti ya zilema zobadwa monga spina bifida kuyambira 2003.
Mu 1994 ndi 1995, Pentagon idavomereza kuti idawombera pafupifupi 10,800 DU kuzungulira ku Bosnia - pafupifupi matani atatu. Zozungulira zoposa 31,000, pafupifupi matani a 10, zidawomberedwa ku Kosovo ndi US ndi NATO ku 1999. DU yawononganso mbali zazikulu za Okinawa, Panama, Puerto Rico, Vieques, South Korea, New Mexico, ndi mabungwe ena a US ndi kuwombera kumene mchitidwe chandamale chimachitikira.
Kukumbukira mazana masauzande a anthu wamba omwe adaphedwa kapena kuphedwa ndi US ku Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, ndi Yemen kuyenera kuyimitsa kaye ankhondo amasiku ano a gung-ho. Koma zikuwoneka kuti akungofuna kugulitsa zida.
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A John LaForge ndi wotsogolera gulu la Nukewatch, gulu loyang'anira zida za nyukiliya komanso gulu lazachilungamo ku Wisconsin, amasintha kalata yake ya kotala, ndikulembera PeaceVoice (www.peacevoice.info).