J.B. Russell

Projects: Four Fingers in Iraq: Depleted Uranium in Iraq

Cancer patients at the Basra Medical College hospital.  Cancer rates have risen exponentially since 1991 in the region of Basra, which was heavily bombed with depleted uranium weapons during the Gulf War.  Basra, Iraq.Photo © J.B. Russell
Depleted Uranium in Iraq, January 2001
Cancer patients at the Basra Medical College hospital. Cancer rates have risen exponentially since 1991 in the region of Basra, which was heavily bombed with depleted uranium weapons during the Gulf War.
Basra, Iraq.
Photo © J.B. Russell