Doug Rokke

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Major Doug Rokke is a forensic scientist who served in the Vietnam war. In preparation for the first Gulf War, he was assigned to prepare soldiers for exposure to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. After the war he was appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as head of a team to investigate the cleaning up of depleted uranium used.

He has become a prominent critic of the use of depleted uranium, after seeing first hand many of the consequences of its use. He asserts that the radiological protective suits provided by the US military were inadequate due to the fact that radioactive uranium munitions aerosol into submicron size particles with a half life of 4.5 billion years. There are no know filters capable of blocking the particles. Many of his colleagues have already died from exposure to radiological or biological exposure as work of his cleanup team. He became sick in 1991 on his return to United States, and in 1994 was radiobioassayed by US Department of Energy, confirming serious expose to radiation. In spite of his sickness, he continues to study the health effects of depleted uranium, give interviews for films such as Beyond Treason and tour widely as a peace activist.