Briefing Paper No.105 - The war in Ukraine just became even more toxic and lethal: the UK supply of ‘depleted uranium’ ammunition to Ukraine and

Moreover, all the nuclear armed While this may be true, those agreements also states, including the three NATO member breach the spirit of the NPT, despite the denials states (United States, the UK and France), are from NATO officials. [...] argued, however, that these arrangements were “fully consistent and compliant”’ with the The Belarusian President Alexander NPT and “seamlessly integrated” into it (largely Lukashenko staged a referendum in February on the grounds that they predate the treaty 2022, revoking Belarus’s non-nuclear zone and because the stored weapons are not status, but the opposition rejected the vote as formally tr. [...] “Russia’s deployment of however, that is a contemptuous sleight of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus directly hand that runs “against the letter and the spirit violates the constitution of Belarus and grossly of the NPT” (see, for example, the statement contradicts the will of the Belarusian people to by Malaysia at the NPT 10th Review assume the non-nuclear state status expressed Conference in. [...] Veteran observer of nuclear weapons, Hans Kristensen of the Federation of Similar munitions were used by the UK and the American Scientists, expresses scepticism that US in the Iraq and Gulf wars in 1991 and 2003, Russia will be in a position to physically deploy and in Kosovo in 1999. [...] The use of depleted uranium ammunition in Ukraine will only increase the environmental damage and long-term suffering of the civilians caught up in the conflict.