J.B. Russell

Projects: Four Fingers in Iraq: Depleted Uranium in Iraq

The toxic and radioactive remains of tanks and military vehicles lay scattered along the Iraq-Kuwait border ten years after the 1991 Gulf War. Coalition forces destroyed the vehicles using depleted uranium which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.Safwan, Iraq.Photo © J.B. Russell
Depleted Uranium in Iraq, January 2001
The toxic and radioactive remains of tanks and military vehicles lay scattered along the Iraq-Kuwait border ten years after the 1991 Gulf War. Coalition forces destroyed the vehicles using depleted uranium which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
Safwan, Iraq.
Photo © J.B. Russell