Consequences of War and Militarism

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Consequences of War and Militarism

• Martin Donohoe

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Outline

• The history and epidemiology of war
• Nuclear weapons
• Chemical weapons
• Biological weapons

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Outline

• Economic and environmental consequences of
  militarism and war
• Health consequences of militarism and war
• Contemporary conflicts
• Afghanistan, Iraq, War on terror
• Solutions

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History of War

• Violent conflict ubiquitous in the animal
  kingdom
• Interspecies conflict food, territory
• Intraspecies conflict food, territory, mates
  (usually not directly fatal)
• Violence among non-human primates
• Gorilla infanticide
• Chimpanzee killing bands

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History of war

• 10,000 yrs ago agriculture
• Stable populations, division of labor, warrior
  class
• 3500 yrs ago bronze weapons and armor
• 2200 yrs ago iron
• 1900 yrs ago widespread use of horses

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History of war

• Ninth Century China - bombs developed
• Thirteenth Century China rockets
• Forgotten until the 19th Century
• 1783 Balloon
• Montgolfier brothers
• Prussian general JCG Heyne used for bombing

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History of War

• 1803-1814 (Napoleonic Wars) English General
  Henry Shrapnel fills cannonballs with bullets and
  exploding charges to increase killing capacity
• 1903 Wright brothers/Kitty Hawk airplane
• 20th Century nuclear submarines, predator
  drones, weaponization of space

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History of War

• Belief that each new invention would eliminate
  warfare
• Instead, increased casualties, killing at a
  distance

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Epidemiology of Warfare

• Deaths in war
• 17th Century 19/million population
• 18th Century 19/million population
• 19th Century 11/million population
• 20th Century 183/million population
• Increasing casualties to civilians
• 85-90 in 20th Century (vs. 10 late 19th Century)

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War Deaths, 1945-2000
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Legacies of Colonial Exploitation

• Christopher Columbus log entry upon meeting the
  Arawaks of the Bahamas
• Theybrought usmanythingsThey willingly
  traded everything they ownedThey do not bear
  armsThey would make fine servantsWith fifty men
  we could subjugate them all and make them do
  whatever we want.

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Legacies of Colonial Exploitation

• Winston Churchill (speaking in favor of RAFs
  experimental bombing of Iraqis in 1920s, which
  killed 9,000 people with 97 tons of bombs)
• I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas
  against uncivilized tribes to spread a lively
  terroragainst recalcitrant Arabs as an
  experiment

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Legacies of Colonial Exploitation

• Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia, Rhodes Scholarship,
  DeBeers Mining Company)
• We must find new lands from which we can easily
  obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit
  the cheap slave labour that is available from the
  natives of the colonies. The colonies would also
  provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods
  produced in our factories.

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Contemporary Wars

• 250 wars in the 20th Century
• Incidence of war rising since 1950
• Most conflicts within poor states
• 27 separate civil wars currently underway
• 19 involve U.S.-supplied weapons

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War Deaths

• Korean War 3 million
• Vietnam War 1.7 million
• Iran-Iraq War 700,000
• Soviet War in Afghanistan 1.5 million
• Second Congo War 3.8 million
• Second Sudanese Civil War 1.9 million

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War Deaths (as of 12/1/12)

• Second Iraq War
• 4,485 U.S. soldiers
• 17,000 Iraqi military
• Estimates of civilian deaths range from 150,000
  violent deaths to 1 million deaths
• U.S. Afghan War
• Over 2,000 U.S. soldiers 1,200 coalition forces
• Estimated 20,000 civilians

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Contemporary Wars

• 72 million lives lost in 20th Century wars,
  another 52 million through genocides
• WW II first war with more battle deaths than
  deaths from other causes, such as accidents,
  disease, and infections

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Vietnam War

• US dropped the equivalent of one 500 lb. bomb on
  every person in Vietnam
• Vietnam War 1.5 to 3 million Vietnamese
  casualties 58,000 American
• More US soldiers died of suicide after Vietnam
  than died in combat during the war.
• Gulf War I U.S. planted one land mine for every
  Iraqi citizen

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Contemporary Wars

• Gulf War I US planted one land mine for every
  Iraqi citizen
• 310,000 direct war-related deaths in 2000 (0.5
  of worldwide mortality) indirect deaths much
  larger
• Use of child soldiers by 19 countries

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Wars Promoted Through Militarism

• Military buildups
• Exceptionalism
• Imperialism
• Glorification of war
• Unrealistic expectations

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Consequences of War

• Deaths, injuries, psychological sequelae
• Collapse of health care system affecting those
  with acute and chronic illnesses
• Famine

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Consequences of War

• Environmental degradation
• Refugees, migrants, internally-displaced persons
• 26 million displaced
• Increasing poverty and debt
• All lead to recurrent cycles of violence

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Atomic Weapons - History

• Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
• The day that humanity started taking its final
  exam Buckminster Fuller
• 15 kiloton bomb, 140,000 deaths
• Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
• 22 kiloton bomb, 70,000 casualties

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The Hiroshima Bomb
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Atomic Explosion
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Atomic Weapons Other Victims

• Hundreds of thousands of hibakusha atomic bomb
  survivors
• 1054 U.S. nuclear tests since 1940s, 331 in
  atmosphere

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Atomic Weapons Other Victims

• 80,000 cancers (15,000 fatal) in US citizens as a
  result of fallout from atmospheric testing
• NCI/CDC
• Thousands of illnesses and deaths, higher CA risk
  in 600,000 former employees
• - DOE

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Atomic Weapons Today

• Approximately 23,360 nuclear weapons at 11 sites
  in 14 countries (1/2 active or operationally-deplo
  yed)
• Down from over 71,000 at height of Cold War
• 5,200 active U.S. warheads today (more than ½ on
  hair-trigger alert) 8,000 in Russia
• Several thousand megatons (100,000 Hiroshimas)

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Atomic Weapons Today

• Vastly redundant arsenal
• 150-200 weapons adequate to destroy all major
  urban centers in Russia

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Atomic Weapons Today

• Accidental intermediate-sized launch of weapons
  from a single Russian submarine would immediately
  kill 6.8 million Americans in 8 cities

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Nuclear Weapons Oops!

• Pentagon 32 nuclear weapons accidents since 1950
• GAO 233
• Since 1950, 10 nuclear weapons lost and never
  recovered
• All laying on seabed, potentially leaking
  radioactivity

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Effects of a Nuclear Explosion

• Immediate
• Vaporized by thermal radiation
• Crushed by blast wave
• Burned and suffocated by firestorm

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Effects of a Nuclear Explosion

• Intermediate
• Suffering, painful deaths
• Health care personnel/resources overwhelmed
• Famine
• Refugees
• Devastated transportation infrastructure

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Effects of a Nuclear Explosion

• Late effects
• Cancer
• Psychological trauma (PTSD, anxiety, depression)
• nuclear winter (mass starvation due to disruption
  of agricultural, transportation, industrial and
  health care systems)

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Effects of a 20 megaton nuclear explosion

• Ground zero - 2 miles
• Within 1/100 second fireball hotter than sun
  everything vaporized
• 2 - 4 miles
• 25 psi pressures 650 mph winds
• Buildings ripped apart and leveled

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Effects of a 20 megaton nuclear explosion

• 4 - 10 miles
• 7 10 psi 200 mph winds
• Sheet metal melts concrete buildings heavily
  damaged (all others leveled)
• 16 miles
• 100 mph winds, firestorm, T 1400 C
• 100 mortality

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Effects of a 20 megaton nuclear explosion

• 21 miles
• 2 psi 100 mph winds
• Shattered glass, flying debri
• 29 miles
• 3 burns over all exposed skin
• 40 miles
• Retinal burns blind all who witness explosion

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Effects of a 20 megaton nuclear explosion over
Boston (1998 study)

• Death toll
• 1,000,000 within minutes
• 1,800,000 survivors
• 1,100,000 fatally injured
• 500,000 with major injuries
• 200,000 without injuries

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Types of Injuries

• Burns
• Blindings
• Deafenings
• PTX
• Fxs
• Shrapnel wounds

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Radiation Sickness

• Very high dose cerebral edema, N/V/D, speech
  and gait difficulties, convulsions, coma, death
  within 1-2 days
• Medium doses N/V/D ? resolves ? recurrent
  hematemesis, bloody D ? majority die
• Low doses BM failure, infections, bleeding,
  sores, death

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Effects on health professionals

• 70 killed or fatally wounded
• 15 injured
• lt 1000 survive

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Effects on health care system

• Most major hospitals destroyed
• EMS system debilitated
• No X-ray machines, electricity, water,
  antibiotics or other meds, blood/plasma, bandages
• 2000 burn unit beds in US (100 per major city)
  essentially destroyed

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Effects on Health Care System

• 1500 patients/doctor
• 10 min/pt
• 4 hours sleep/noc
• 2 weeks to see all injured

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Ultimate Outcomes

• Boston (pop. 2.8 million in 1998)
• gt 2.5 million dead after one month
• More than 6x as many Americans as died in WW II

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Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

• Supported by
• APHA
• AMA
• ACP
• IPPNW
• PSR
• Global political and military leaders

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Health hazards of the Nuclear Cycle

• Ecosystem degradation e.g., Bikini Island
• Uranium mining 5-fold increase in lung cancer
• Depleted uranium
• increased stillbirths, birth defects, childhood
  leukemias, other cancers in Southern Iraq
• Possible increase in lung CA in U.S. soldiers
  (data sparse)

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Nuclear Waste Disposal

• On-site storage
• 118 commercial reactors
• 10 weapons plants
• 37 research reactors

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Nuclear Waste DisposalHanford, WA

• Site of plutonium production for first atom bomb
  (and most of U.S. nuclear arsenal)
• Decommissioned at end of Cold War (1971)
• More than 210 million liters of radioactive and
  chemical waste stored in 177 deteriorating
  underground storage tanks at Hanford, WA
• 60 have leaked on site
• Potential risks to nearby Columbia River

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Nuclear Waste DisposalHanford, WA

• Plan vitrification and underground storage
• Most complex and costly environmental restoration
  ever attempted (current price tag 12.3 billion
  and increasing finish date 2019?)
• Site plagued by leaks, cost overruns

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Nuclear Waste Disposal

• Skull Valley, Goshute Indian Reservation, Utah
• Private fuel storage consortium
• Temporary storage of 44,000 tons of high-level
  nuclear waste
• Bribes to tribes environmental injustice
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, New Mexico
• Defense Dept. waste

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Nuclear Waste Disposal Yucca Mountain

• On DOE land claimed by Western Shoshone Nation
  under the Ruby Valley Treaty of 1863
• 100 miles from Las Vegas
• Near aquifer and earthquake fault

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Nuclear Waste Disposal Yucca Mountain

• Est. 100,000 shipments of 70,000 120,000 tons
  of waste over 25 yrs
• Coming within ½ mile of 50 million Americans
• Est. 200-350 accidents
• Nuclear roulette
• After 9 billion spent, plan cancelled (2010)
  other options being considered

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Nuclear Power Plants
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Nuclear Power Plants

• 104 plants in US
• Aging, equipment failures (8 from 3/00-4/01 ?
  shutdowns)
• 2011 40 failed basic fire safety standards 12
  have not fully implemented terrorism prevention
  requirements
• 435 plants worldwide (generate 16 of planets
  electricity)
• 60 plants in Russia
• ? Condition, safety

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Nuclear Power

• Supply of uranium for fission to run out by 2050
• Alternate sources
• MOX (mixed oxide) fuel (reprocessed spent fuel
  plutonium and uranium)
• Breeder reactors make more fuel (plutonium)
  than they consume
• Fission currently impractical

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Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

• Three Mile Island (1979)
• 50,000 to 100,000 excess deaths
• Chernobyl, USSR, 1986 - nuclear power plant
  explosion
• 200 times the radiation of Hiroshima Nagasaki
• 25-100 died immediately, up to 1,000 injured
  acutely, NCI estimates 10-75K thyroid cancers
  (other estimates much lower)
• Some estimates as high as almost 1 million deaths
• NY Acad Sci, 2010

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Chernobyl

• Higher risk of neural tube defects and childhood
  leukemia among those living near nuclear power
  plants
• Anxiety a major problem
• Ukraine still spends 6 of its GDP each year on
  Chernobyl-related matters
• 2.1 billion structure will seal off reactor for
  100 yrs.

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Nuclear Accidents Fukushima

• 2nd largest nuclear power plant disaster after
  Chernobyl
• 50 early casualties
• Reactor built by GE (also responsible for Indian
  Point plant, 40 miles from NYC)

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Nuclear Accidents Fukushima

• GE has built 91 nuclear power plants in 11
  countries, including 23 plants at 11 sites in
  U.S.
• Full, long term costs and consequences still
  unknown
• Yet in 2012, Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows
  Southern Company to build and operate 2 new
  nuclear power plants in Georgia

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Nuclear Power Plants

• For every US plant that has its license renewed,
  12 additional cancer deaths (NRC)
• Plus any deaths from accidents, non-routine
  releases, high level waste and spent fuel

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Nuclear Power Plants

• Nuclear power industry receives billions of
  dollars in taxpayer subsidies
• Since 1948, federal government has spent 95
  billion on nuclear R and D (4 times the amount
  spent on solar wind geothermal biomass, biofuels,
  and hydropower combined)
• Nuclear power non-viable compared to green power
  without subsidies

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Nuclear Power Plants

• Prior to London Convention(1972, revised 1993),
  which prohibits dumping of radioactive waste at
  sea, U.S. considered dumping decommissioned
  nuclear reactors into the worlds oceans
• Precautionary principle

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Nuclear Terrorism

• Attack on nuclear power plant or other nuclear
  installation
• 47 of nuclear plants failed to repel mock
  terrorist attacks conducted by the NRC in the
  1990s
• Axles of Evil
• 600 employees, 250 million, weekly shipments of
  nuclear material along major US highways
• Potential for accidents, terrorist attacks

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Nuclear Terrorism

• Dirty bomb
• Potential tens to hundreds of thousands of
  deaths, billions of dollars of damage, chaos
• Numerous radiation sources left over from Cold
  War in post-Soviet countries

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Nuclear Terrorism

• Collapse of Soviet Union 15,000 nuclear warheads
  and enough highly-enriched uranium and plutonium
  to make 60,000 more
• More than 90 of Russias fissile materials are
  located in 171 buildings, only 11 of which have
  been fully secured
• 175 cases of nuclear trafficking from 1993 2001
  (NRC)

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Nuclear Terrorism

• Reports of weapons missing from Soviet arsenal
• Non-proliferation efforts, including the DOEs
  Nuclear Cities Initiative, get a fraction of 1
  of the defense budget, further cuts planned
• The Nth Country experiment (1964) 3 science
  post-docs with no nuclear know-how designed a
  working atom bomb

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Nuclear Accidents

• Pentagon Over 550 mistakes, malfunctions, and
  false alarms as of 2012
• 8 nuclear submarines at bottom of sea leaking
  uranium and plutonium
• 11 nuclear weapons lost (most on bottom of ocean)

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Chemical Weapons

• 428 BC Athenians and Spartans burned wax, pitch
  and sulfur
• DaVinci arsenic and sulfur shells
• WW I
• Italians vs. Ethiopians
• Japanese vs. Chinese
• Germans vs. Allies
• Fritz Haber chlorine gas
• 91,000 deaths and 1.3 million injuries

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Chemical Weapons

• Egypt vs. South Yemen (1963-7)
• Agent Orange (contains carcinogenic, feto-toxic
  dioxin)
• Defoliant herbicide
• Manufacturer Dow Chemical
• Six lbs per person dumped by US on South Vietnam
• Millions of victims

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Chemical Weapons

• Iran/Iraq War (1980s)
• Gulf War (versus Kurds, ? Others)
• Gulf War Syndrome
• Real per Congressionally-mandated scientific
  panel, 2008
• Up to 25 of vets affected per VA study
• Symptoms Memory loss, lack of concentration,
  neuropathic pain, depression

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Chemical Weapons

• 1995 Tokyo subway attack by Aum Shrinko cult
  using sarin
• 12 dead, 5000 injured or incapacitated
• 2012 Libya (mustard gas) and Syria (sarin)

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Types of Chemical Weapons

• Nerve gasses / paralytics
• E.g., sarin, VX
• S/S paralysis (incl. resp. muscles), headache,
  dizziness, N/V
• Rx gas masks, pretreatment with
  pyridostigmine, decontamination, antidotes
  (atropine, pralidoxime, diazepam, tropicamide)

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Types of Chemical Weapons

• Blistering agents
• E.g., sulphur mustard
• S/S burns, blindness, pulmonary toxicity, BM
  suppression, N/V/D
• Rx decontamination, analgesia, pulmonary and eye
  care

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Types of Chemical Weapons

• Pulmonary toxicants
• E.g., chlorine, phosgene
• S/S pneumonitis, laryngeal spasm, pulmonary
  edema, ARDS
• Rx O2, bronchodilators, corticosteroids,
  ?ibuprofen, ?acetylcysteine

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Chemical WeaponsVietnam and Napalm
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Chemical WeaponsVietnam and Napalm
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Chemical WeaponsVietnam and Napalm
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Chemical Weapons

• 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention
  prohibits development, production, and
  stockpiling
• US and Russia still have significant stockpiles
• 480 US chemical facilities each put 100,000 or
  more Americans at risk of poison gas disaster

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Other Chemical WeaponsTear gas

• Use in civil and political unrest
• Causes eye, skin and pulmonary toxicity, N/V,
  photophobia and headache, trauma due to blast
• Rx wash skin, flush eyes, IVF, humidified O2,
  bronchodilators prn, prophylactic antibiotics

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Other Chemical WeaponsPepper Spray

• Derived from cayenne peppers (contains 10-15
  oleoresin capsicum)
• 1.5-2 million Scoville unit heat rating
• Jalapeño pepper 2500-5000 Scoville units
• Habañero pepper (worlds hottest) 300,000
  Scoville units
• Use in civil and political unrest

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Other Chemical Weapons

• Calmatives mind-altering or sleep-inducing
  weapons (benzo-, SSRI-, and anesthetic
  derivatives)
• Cramp-inducing agents
• Stink bombs (?Race specific?)
• Colored smoke as an obscurant
• Crowd control vs use in warfare
• US pilot amphetamine use

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Biological Weapons - History

• Sixth Century BC Assyrians poison wells with rye
  ergot
• 300 BC Greeks pollute wells
• Later Romans and Persians, Classical, Medieval
  and Renaissance periods, US Civil War (General
  Johnson at Vicksburg)
• 14th Century Tatars catapulting plague-infested
  corpses

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Biological Weapons - History

• Kochs postulates anthrax first linkage of a
  specific disease with a specific pathogen
• Louis Pasteur anthrax and cholera vaccines

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Biological Weapons - History

• Sir Jeffrey Amherst (French and Indian Wars -
  smallpox) You would do well to try to inoculate
  the Indians, by means of blankets, to extirpate
  this execrable race
• WW I Cholera, plague, glanders, anthrax

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Biological Weapons WW II

• Unit 731, Manchuria, Shiro Ishii
• British Operation Vegetarian (anthrax cakes /
  Germany)
• US military personnel received typhoid, smallpox,
  yellow fever and tetanus vaccines
• Those who refused subject to court martial
• c.f., Gulf War pyridostigmine, botulism vaccine

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Biological Weapons WW II

• Unlicensed yellow fever vaccine contaminated with
  hepatitis B
• 330,000 infections
• 51,000 cases of symptomatic hep B
• Long term outcomes good

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Biological Weapons Post WWII

• Swerdlosk
• Zimbabwe
• False alarms

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Biological Weapons Today

• 17 countries possess ( Al Qaeda?)
• US role in supplying other nations
• e.g., 1985-1989 US companies sold to Iraq
• Bacillus anthracis, Clostridium botulinum,
  Histoplasma capsulatum, Brucella melitensis,
  Clostsridium perfringens, Clostridium tetani, and
  E. coli
• Despite evidence of use of chemical weapons
  against Kurds

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Biological Weapons Today

• 1972 Biological Weapons Protocol signed by 158
  nations
• Lacks adequate enforcement mechanisms
• US has rejected enforcement (wary of foreign
  inspectors discovering military secrets and/or
  trade secrets of biotechnology and pharmaceutical
  companies)

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Biological Weapons - Agents

• Anthrax Brucellosis Cholera
• Glanders Pneumonic plague
• Tularemia Q Fever Smallpox
• Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (e.g., Ebola)
• Botulism Staph enterotoxin B
• Ricin Mycxotoxins

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Biological Weapons Today

• 1999 FBI at least once a day a politician,
  school, abortion clinic, or other controversial
  person or institution receives an envelope from a
  dissident containing a powder and a note
  announcing a lethal dose of anthrax

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Biological Weapons Today

• Genetic weapons targeted at specific ethnic
  groups
• Synbio (synthetic biology)
• Publication of details re creation of novel,
  dangerous agents

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Biological Weapons Today

• Use, along with chemical weapons, in The Drug
  War
• Fusarium oxysporum fungus to eradicate coca pants
  in Columbia Fusarium oxysporum and Pleaspora
  papaveracea fungus to eradicate opium poppies in
  Central Asia
• ? Marijuana
• Food crops also destroyed
• US, UN Drug Control Program, others

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Biological Weapons Today

• Quarantine Issues
• Quarantine versus Isolation
• National versus foreign outbreaks / border
  control
• Adverse consequences increased risk of disease
  transmission in quarantined population, violence,
  mistrust of government, ethnic bias

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Smallpox

• DNA virus decimated native American populations
  eradicated by WHO vaccination campaign in 1972
  genome sequenced in 1992 recreation of virus in
  lab possible in 2002
• ?Only remaining viral stocks at CDCP and in
  Siberia?
• WHO Executive Board recommended retaining stores

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Smallpox

• Incubation period 7-17 days (avg. 12)
• Spread by droplet infection highly contagious
• Symptoms abrupt onset of F/HA/myalgias ?
  non-specific erythematous rash (most prominent on
  face and extremities, simultaneous varicella
  most prominent on trunk, successive waves) ? MSOF
  ? death

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Smallpox

• Dx clinical, EM of vesicular fluid
• Rx isolation, post-exposure vaccination,
  supportive care, ?antivirals
• 30 fatality rate

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Smallpox
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Smallpox Vaccination

• Vaccinia
• US ended in 1972
• Waning (?negligible) immunity
• Effects local reaction. Lymphadenopathy

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Smallpox Vaccination

• Side effects postvaccinial encephalitis
  (1/300,000), progressive vaccinia eczema
  vaccinatum, generalized vaccinia
• Vaccinia immune globulin may modulate
• New vaccine (Imvamune) may be safe for those with
  atopic dermatitis

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Smallpox Vaccination

• Current recommendation isolation and vaccination
  / VIG for close contacts
• Vaccination of all US citizens not feasible
• Inadequate supplies
• Several hundred deaths
• ? Diversion of resources from usual childhood
  vaccines
• ? vaccinate health professionals, public servants
• Infectivity, disability, workmans comp issues

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Anthrax

• Bacillus anthracis, aerobic, G, spore-forming
  rod
• Zoonosis
• Invisible and odorless when aerosolized

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Anthrax

• 1979 accidental release at Swerdlosk (USSR) 250
  cases, 100 deaths, town abandoned due to
  contamination
• 1997 Aum Shrinko cult attempted aerosol
  dispersal unsuccessful

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Anthrax

• Est. 50kg release over urban center of 5 million
  people would sicken 250K and kill 100K
• 100 kg release would have the same of
  casualties as a hydrogen bomb explosion

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Cutaneous Anthrax

• 2000 cases/yr worldwide
• Due to exposure to infected animals / animal
  products
• Epidemic in Zimbabwe, 1989-1995 10,000 cases

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Cutaneous Anthrax

• Incubation period 1-10 days (avg. 5)
• Pruritic macule or papule day 1
• Round ulcer day 2
• Black eschar follows resolves over 1-2 weeks
• Painful lymphadenopathy

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Cutaneous Anthrax

• Antibiotic Rx (doxy, cipro, pcn) decreases
  likelihood of systemic disease
• Fatality rate 20 without antibiotics rare with
  antibiotics
• Following 9/11 11 cases

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Cutaneous Anthrax - Ulcer
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Cutaneous Anthrax - Eschar
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Gastrointestinal Anthrax

• From ingestion of poorly cooked, infected meat
• Oropharyngeal ulcers LAN edema sepsis
• Terminal ileal / cecal lesion - N/V/bloody
  D/acute abdomen/ascites/sepsis
• Rx Abx (doxy, cipro, pcn), supportive care

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Inhalational Anthrax

• Stage I
• begins 2-43 days post-exposure
• F/dyspnea/cough/HA/V/Ch/weakness/AP/CP
• Lasts a few hours to a few days

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Inhalational Anthrax

• Stage II
• F/dyspnea/diaphoresis/shock
• CXR with widened mediastinum due to
  lymphadenopathy
• pleural effusions
• 50 develop hemorrhagic meningitis meningismus,
  delirium and obtundation
• Rapid progression to cyanosis, hypotension and
  death

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Inhalational AnthraxWidened Mediastinum
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Inhalational Anthrax
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Inhalational Anthrax

• Dx blood cultures, XR/CT, post-mortem serology
  not helpful
• Case fatality rate approx. 50
• Rx
• post-exposure antibiotics (doxycycline,
  ciprofloxacin, penicillin)
• Supportive care

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Anthrax Vaccine

• 3 or 4 dose series
• US armed service members
• Side effects HA 0.4, local rxn 3.6, mild
  systemic SEs in 1
• Manufacturer Bioport
• Contract to produce 4.6 million doses for the DOD

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Anthrax Vaccine

• Pre/post exposure vaccination
• Improved vaccine under development
• Testing considered unethical
• ?Groups to vaccinate?
• Antibody testing may help guide

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Anthrax The Band
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Non-lethal weapons

• High-power microwaves (crammed into cruise
  missiles, discharge a huge energy pulse to damage
  electronics)
• Soft bombs
• E.g., carbon fiber showers to short circuit
  electrical power grids (used in former Yugoslavia
  and in Gulf War I)

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Acoustic weapons
• Acoustic bullets
• Curdler unit shrieks, clangs
• Infrasound penetrates most buildings and
  vehicles, causes nausea, diarrhea,
  disorientation, internal organ damage and even
  death
• Squawk box intolerable ultrasound pulses

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Optical weapons
• Photic driver ultrasound plus stroboscopic
  infrared flasher to penetrate closed eyelids and
  cause seizures
• Psycho-correction devices send subliminal
  visual and aural messages

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Barrier Weapons
• Slick coatings slippery like ice
• Sticky foam (used by US in Somalia)
• Obscurants
• Colored smoke felt to cause more psychological
  panic than white smoke
• Markers
• Fluorescent powder visible under UV light
• Sponge grenades impregnated with infrared dye
• To mark targets

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Riot Control
• Invisible tear gas
• Electrical
• Police or soldiers jacket which jolts anyone who
  touches it
• Cattle prods (malicious and accidental use by
  civilians)

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Biotechnical
• Biodegrading microbes (to destroy fuel)
• Genetic code alterations (to create
  less-than-lethal but long-term disablements,
  perhaps for generations, thereby creating a
  societal burden)
• Neuro-implants for behavior modification
• Project Agile (1996) race-specific stink bombs
• Pheromones (to impair human and animal
  reproduction mark individuals for assaults by
  killer bees, other animals or pests)

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Non-lethal Weapons Proposed and Under
Development

• Holograms
• God/gods/other religious figures or symbols
• Soldier forces
• Death, dead comrades
• Others

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Other WMDs

• Small arms
• 90 of the 300,000 yearly deaths from violent
  conflict
• Land mines
• 24,000 deaths/yr, tens of thousands more disabled
• Cluster bombs

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Cyberwar

• Internet viruses, worms, etc. designed to disable
  water and power systems, air traffic control,
  communications, etc.
• E.g., Stuxnet computer worm Iranian nuclear
  facilities
• Weapons of the future (?present?)

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Health Care System Preparedness for Weapons of
Mass Destruction

• Congressional panel estimates gt 50 chance of
  terrorist act involving WMDs by 2013
• ERs/hospital systems inadequately prepared
• Funds low

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Health Care System Preparedness for Weapons of
Mass Destruction

• US public health / emergency care system already
  in disarray
• 80 of states facing budget cuts or holdbacks
• Medicaid over budget in 23 states

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Costs of Militarization

• US over ½ of discretionary tax dollars spent on
  the military
• Increased spending on nuclear weapons
• Inadequate spending to prevent the spread of
  chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons

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U.S. Discretionary Spending
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Missile Defense ShieldThe Militarization of Space

• Star Wars program proceeding, despite
• Astronomical cost est. 100 billion
• Strong opposition by scientific community
• Spectacular failures in 2/4 tests, despite highly
  structured conditions
• Abandonment of ABM Treaty by Bush administration

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Missile Defense ShieldThe Militarization of Space

• Shield or very porous umbrella
• Easily overwhelmed and fooled by inexpensive
  decoys
• No protection against internal accidents or
  terrorists bringing weapon onto US soil or dirty
  bomb
• Proposed use of moon for spy observatories and
  weapons

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Dwight Eisenhower

• The problem in defense spending is to figure out
  how far you should go without destroying from
  within that which you are trying to protect from
  without

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Meanwhile...Social Injustices Abound

• 51 million Americans lack health insurance
• 25 of US children live in poverty
• Homelessness, public educational system a
  shambles, increasing jail populations, AIDS, etc.
• Mass extinction, global warming
• 2.5 billion people worldwide live in abject
  poverty (earn less than 500 per year, lack
  access to clean drinking water)

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Environmental Consequences of Militarization

• Worlds single largest polluter
• 8 of global air pollution
• 2-11 of raw material use
• Almost all high and low level radioactive waste

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The US Military

• Owns an amount of land equal to North Korea or
  Kentucky (25 million acres)
• Much of it polluted
• Cleanup cost estimates in the hundreds of
  billions
• 2000 abandoned firing ranges
• E.g., Kahoolawe
• 60 people killed by unexploded ordnance since WWII

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Health Costs of Militarization

• 3 hours of world arms spending annual WHO
  budget
• ½ day of world arms spending immunization for
  all the worlds children
• 3 days of US arms spending amount spent on
  health, education and welfare programs for US
  children in one year

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Health Costs of Militarization

• 3 weeks of world arms spending primary health
  care for all in poor countries, including safe
  drinking water and full immunizations
• Brain drain 2/3 of US scientists work in
  military-industrial complex (although much work
  has widespread applicability)

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Skewed Priorities

• The world spends 1.7 trillion/year on military
  goods and services
• For 25 of this, we could
• Eliminate starvation and malnutrition
• Provide shelter for all
• Eliminate illiteracy
• Provide clean and safe water
• Prevent soil erosion

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Skewed Priorities

• Prevent global warming
• Stop deforestation
• Aid all refugees
• Retire developing nations debt
• Provide clean, safe energy (through efficiency
  and renewables)

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Skewed Priorities

• Prevent acid rain
• Fix the ozone hole
• Stabilize world population
• Provide basic universal health care and AIDS
  control
• Eliminate nuclear weapons and land mines

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!

• Pentagon Lacks Funding to Fix Public Schools on
  Military Bases
• DOD, September, 2011

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Dwight Eisenhower

• Every gun that is made, every rocket fired,
  signifies in the final sense a theft from those
  who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
  and not clothed

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Dwight Eisenhower

• This world is not spending money alone. It is
  spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of
  its scientists, the hopes of its children. This
  is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.
  Under the cloud of threatening war, it is
  humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

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Martin Luther King

• A nation that continues year after year to
  spend more money on military defense than on
  programs of social uplift is approaching
  spiritual death.

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Military Spending

• US ½ of discretionary tax dollars spent on the
  military
• US military budget represents 34 of total world
  military budget (1.5 trillion in 2009)
• Iraq/Afghanistan Wars likely to cost 4-5 trillion

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Arms Exports
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Arms Imports
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US Foreign Aid

• US ranks 21st in the world in foreign aid as a
  percentage of GDP (0.16, versus UN recommended
  0.07)
• Foreign Aid
• 1/3 military
• 1/3 economic
• 1/3 food and development
• US worlds second largest arms exporter

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Top Pentagon Prime Contractors Fiscal Year 2009

• Lockheed Martin Corp.
• Northrop Grumman Corp.
• Boeing Corp.
• Raytheon Corp.
• General Dynamics Corp.
• KBR, Inc.

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September 11, 2001
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World Trade Center Bombing

• 3300 fatalities - foreign nationals outnumbered
  Americans
• Over 18,000 people suffering health problems
  linked to attack and rescue
• Multiple toxins in air and rubble
• Zadroga Act (2010) provides funds for monitoring,
  treatment, and victim compensation

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World Trade Center Bombing

• Environmental health consequences unknown
• 300-400 tons asbestos
• 130,000 gallons of transformer oil contaminated
  with PCBS
• Lead, sulfuric acid, silicon
• Fine dust particles

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September 11, 2001

• Pentagon 286 casualties
• Pennsylvania approximately 100 casualties

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The War on Terror(The War on Afghanistan, Iraq,
and ?)

• May last 50 or more years Cheney
• Afghanistan
• Ruled by repressive
• human-(womens-)rights-abusing Taliban, then
  corrupt quasi-democratic kleptocracy
• Potential transit route for oil and gas pipeline
  from Central Asia
• Strategic importance in Middle East

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Afghanistan

• Population 27 million
• Life expectancy 46 years
• Literacy rate 32
• Avg. annual income 280

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Afghanistan

• Negligible infrastructure secondary to decades of
  civil war
• 1 of every 230 persons is a land mine amputee
• Infant mortality 146/1000
• 50 of children malnourished 33 are orphans

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Afghanistan/Iraq Parallels

• 10 years of sanctions, bombings resulting in
  500,000 to 1,000,000 deaths (per UN)
• UN Devt. Index 126/174
• Infant mortality rates jumped from 65/1000
  (pre-Gulf War I) to 103/1000 (2003)
• Life expectancy decreased from 62 to 56

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Afghanistan/Iraq Parallels

• Literacy decreased from 89 to 57
• Infrastructure devastated, environment degraded
• Rebuilding post-war?

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What goes around comes around

• 1980s CIA arms Afghan rebels with hundreds of
  Stinger missiles
• Late 2002 Terrorists using a similar
  Russian-made version of Stinger almost bring down
  Israeli passenger airline over Kenya
• CIA trying to buy back, but most unaccounted for
• Can shoot down a plane at up 6000-8000 feet
• 24 diverted to Iran

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Before Gulf War I

• US sells weapons to Iraq/Hussein
• Including components to produce WMDs
• Rumsfeld visits Baghdad to promote US weapons
  sales
• US minimally perturbed when Hussein gasses 4000
  Kurds, torpedoes US naval vessel

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Gulf War I

• 105,000 military and 110,000 civilian deaths
  (almost all Iraqis)
• Over 2.25 million refugees
• 2/3 of US casualties from friendly fire
• Cost 61 billion (82 billion in 2003 dollars)
• US pays only 1/6 of cost (most from Saudi Arabia,
  Kuwait, Germany and Japan)
• Environmental devastation
• 48 billion in claims to UN

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Kuwaiti Oil Fires
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War Deaths (as of 12/1/12)

• Second Iraq War
• 4,485 U.S. soldiers
• 17,000 Iraqi military
• Estimates of civilian deaths range from 150,000
  violent deaths to 1 million deaths
• U.S. Afghan War
• Over 2,000 U.S. soldiers 1,200 coalition forces
• Estimated 20,000 civilians

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Gulf War II

• Financial cost of war 4-5 trillion (est.)
• Includes fighting, rebuilding, veterans health
  care, economic losses, etc.
• Global travel industry expected to lose over 500
  billion
• Distraction from North Korea, other threats
• Shock and awe battle plan targeting
  infrastructure explicitly prohibited by the
  Geneva Conventions

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Gulf War II - Iraq

• 96 of of the 9.1 billion allocated to the
  Development Fund for Iraq unaccounted for
• Special Inspector General for Iraq
  Reconstruction, 2010
• Ongoing audit of another 53 billion fund
  ongoing, but has already uncovered numerous
  instances of waste, fraud, and abuse (total for
  Iraq and Afghanisatan between 31 billion and 60
  billion as of 2011)

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Contemporary Wars

• Casualties among soldiers, civilians continue
• More US soldiers have committed suicide than have
  died in Afghan War
• Veteran health care needs massive (TBI,
  psychiatric disorders, etc.)

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Contemporary Wars

• Libya War
• Coming Soon Iran?
• Privatization of war and national security
  enterprises

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George W Bushs Military Record

• February, 1968 States desire to be pilot scores
  in 25th percentile in pilot aptitude section of
  Air Force officers test.
• May, 1968 Enlists in Texas Air National Guard
  jumps list with assistance of Texas House
  Speaker pledges two years of active duty and
  four years of reserve duty

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George W Bushs Military Record

• June, 1968 Student deferment expires
• September, 1968 Pulls inactive duty to serve on
  Florida Senators re-election campaign
• November, 1968 Re-activated

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George W Bushs Military Record

• November, 1970 Promoted to First Lieutenant,
  rejected by UT Law School
• Spring, 1970 Hired by Texas agricultural
  importer to shuttle plants to/from Florida
• June, 1970 Joins Guards Champagne Unit,
  flying with sons of Texas elite

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George W Bushs Military Record

• May, 1972 Transfers to Alabama Guard unit so he
  can work on Senator Blounts re-election campaign
• His commanding officer states he never showed up
  for duty
• Grounded for missing a mandatory physical

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George W Bushs Military Record

• Returns to Houston but never reports for Guard
  duty
• December, 1972 DUI arrest
• October, 1973 Air National Guard relieves him
  from commitment 8 months early, allowing him to
  attend Harvard Business School

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US Nuclear Weapons PoliciesUnder GW Bush

• Nuclear Posture Review expands scope of use of
  nuclear weapons, including first-strike against
  non-nuclear states
• Withdrawal from ABM Treaty
• Boycotted Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  Conference
• Budgeted money to resume nuclear testing and
  development
• Possible use of nuclear-powered predator drones

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U.S. Nuclear Policy Under Obama

• U.S. retains first strike option against nuclear
  states
• START treaty signed by Obama, Putin
• Awaiting Senate approval
• Will limit US and Russia to 1,550 long-range
  warheads (still overkill)

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Phillip Berrigan

• Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth to
  mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use
  them, is a curse against God, the human family,
  and the earth itself.

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Disturbing TrendsThe Patriot Act

• Passed with minimal debate, most Congresspersons
  acknowledge not reading
• Increased governmental and corporate secrecy
  polluters subject to decreased public scrutiny
• Erosion of civil liberties deportations,
  accused held without charge/access to legal
  counsel
• 70,000 individuals on governments list of
  suspected terrorists

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National Defense Authorization Act

• Signed by President Obama in 2012
• Grants Pentagon right to kidnap, indefinitely
  detain, torture, and kill foreigners and US
  citizens
• No right of trial / legal representation
• First explicit piece of legislation to repeal
  Bill of Rights

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Disturbing TrendsThe Homeland Security Agency

• The HSA absorbs two dozen agencies, 170,000
  employees, 38 billion budget
• TIPS program (citizen spying program)
• Total Information Awareness System (Poindexter)
• Paranoia alert levels, duct tape and plastic
  sheeting

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Special Interest Provisions in the Homeland
Security Law

• Vaccine liability protection (incl. existing
  thimersol lawsuits) Eli Lilly
• US corporations setting up offshore business
  fronts to avoid paying taxes allowed to contract
  with HSD
• US government prohibited from publicly releasing
  information related to vulnerabilities incl.
  safety of nuclear reactors, environmental toxins,
  etc

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Special Interest Provisions in the Homeland
Security Law

• Immunity from liability for manufacturers of
  anti-terrorism products and technologies
• Army investigations show 60-90 of soldiers CBW
  protective gear malfunctions
• Liability protection for airport screening
  companies
• Secret advisory meetings with industry permitted,
  even if meeting not related to national security
• C.f. Cheneys Energy Commission

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Disturbing TrendsCensorship and Propaganda

• US blacks out names of corporations which sold
  weapons to Iraq on UN inspectors reports
• Covering of Picassos Guernica for news
  conferences outside UN Security Council
• Armed Services Edition books for soldiers
• WW II the Classics to popular fiction
• Gulf War II Henry V, Art of War, War Letters,
  Profiles of American Military Heroes

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Disturbing TrendsCensorship and Propaganda

• No Child Left Behind Education Act contains
  amendment requiring that all public schools allow
  recruiters in their buildings and provide
  military with contact numbers and addresses for
  all students
• Parents can opt out
• CIA resumes recruiting on college campuses
• 21st Century McCarthyism
• Wikileaks

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Disturbing Trends

• Hate crimes, intolerance
• Media jingoism
• Army to ignore FDA safety standards in
  experiments on soldiers (legacy of 20th Century
  crimes)

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Disturbing Trends

• Budget surplus/deficit
• 2000 surplus 5.6 trillion
• 2003 deficit 2.1 trillion
• 2011 deficit 1.3 trillion
• Cities and states facing huge budget shortfall
• Bush States are on their own.
• Obama Financial meltdown
• Patriot II?

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George W. BushAugust 5, 2004

• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and
  so are we. They never stop thinking about new
  ways to harm our country and our people, and
  neither do we."

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James Madison

• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have
  ever been forged out of the weapons provided for
  defense against real, pretended, or imaginary
  dangers from abroad.

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Samuel Johnson

• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

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Just War Theory

• The cause must be just
• A lawful authority must decide to resort to force
• The intention of the war must be in accord with
  international law
• The use of force must be a last resort

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Just War Theory

• The probability of success should be high
• The cost-benefit ratio must be high
• The means used must conform with international
  humanitarian law

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Ignored Alternatives to War in Iraq

• Border monitoring in Jordan, Syria and Turkey
• Advanced X-ray scanning technology and an
  electronic pass system at borders
• Sanctions assistance missions to enforce military
  sanctions
• Political assurances and economic incentives to
  neighboring states

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Ignored Alternatives to War in Iraq

• Improve cargo monitoring at port of Azqaba,
  Jordan (high-volume port for sea-going cargo to
  Iraq)
• Create a green list of approved oil companies to
  purchase Iraqi oil i.e., those not providing
  kickbacks to Hussein
• Require audited financial reports from oil
  purchasers to enforce above

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Ignored Alternatives to War in Iraq

• Control or shut down the Syria-Iraq pipeline
• Expose and penalize arms embargo violations
• Justice in Palestine
• Israel most UN Security Council Violations
• Economic and humanitarian assistance to poor
  Muslim countries build alliances, good will
• Middle Eastern Marshall Plan
• Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (c.f. South
  Africa, El Salvador)

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The US Rogue Nation

• History Native Americans, slavery, current
  excesses, disparities and injustices
• Co-opting Nazi and Japanese WWII scientists
• Minimum 277 troop deployments by the US in its
  225 year history
• Over 1,000 bases worldwide today

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The US Rogue Nation

• Since the end of WWII, the US has bombed
• China, Korea, Indonesia, Cuba, Guatemala, Congo,
  Peru, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, El
  Salvador, Grenada, Libya, Panama, Afghanistan,
  Sudan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq

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The US Rogue Nation

• Conservative estimate 8 million killed
• US invasions/bombings often largely at behest of
  corporate interests

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The US Rogue Nation

• In 2011, the US spent about 2,240 per US citizen
  on defense
• vs. a few dollars per capita on peacekeeping
  efforts
• The US maintains military bases in 69 sovereign
  nations around the world

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The US Rogue Nation

• Continued funding of the Western Hemisphere
  Institute for Security Cooperation
• Formerly the School of the Americas
• Over 60,000 graduates, including many of the
  worst human rights abusers in Latin America
  (e.g., Manuel Noriega, Omar Torrijos, and the
  assassins of Archbishop Oscar Romero)
• School of the Americas Watch, arrests

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International Non-Cooperation/Isolationism

• Failure to sign or approve
• Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
• Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel
  Land Mines
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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International Non-Cooperation/Isolationism

• Failure to sign or approve
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination
  Against Women Convention on Economic, Social and
  Cultural Rights
• Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in
  Persons

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International Non-Cooperation/Isolationism

• Failure to sign or approve
• Protocol 1, Article 55 of the Geneva Conventions,
  which bans methods or means of warfare which are
  intended, or may be expected, to cause
  widespread, long-term and severe damage to the
  natural environment
• The Basel Convention on the Control of
  Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
  (designed to control dumping of hazardous wastes
  from the industrialized world in developing
  countries)

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The US Rogue Nation

• Torture (80-100 nations worldwide)
• Death Penalty
• US executes more of its citizens than any other
  country except China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia
• Until recently, the US was the only country to
  execute both juveniles and the mentally ill

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The US Rogue Nation

• Failure to follow World Court Decisions
• Failure to recognize International Criminal Court
• Largest debtor to the UN (only 40 of dues paid)

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Solutions

• Physician activism (PSR, IPPNW, etc.)
• Increased education public, medical and public
  health students
• Tolerance and appreciation of diversity
• Social justice, environmental preservation, etc.
• Eliminate or limit military recruiting in public
  schools
• Assist victims of war (PHR, MSF, etc.)
• Treaties

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Thomas Jefferson

• Nothing can keep (government) right but (the
  peoples) vigilant and distrustful
  superintendence

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Harvey Cushing

• A physician is obligated to consider more than a
  diseased organ, more even than the whole man. He
  must view the man in his world.

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Rudolph Virchow

• Doctors are natural attorneys for the poor If
  medicine is to really accomplish its great task,
  it must intervene in political and social life

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The role of the doctor in society

• World Health Organization
• The role of the physician in the preservation
  and promotion of peace is the most significant
  factor for the attainment of health for all.

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Pastor Niemoller

• First they came for the Jews, and I did not
  speak up, for I was not a Jew.
• Then they came for the communists, and I did not
  speak up, for I was not a communist.
• Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did
  not speak up, for I was not a trade unionist.
• Then they came for me, and there was no one left
  to speak up for me.

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Contact Information

• Public Health and Social Justice Website
• http//www.phsj.org
• martindonohoe_at_phsj.org