New Tools That Model 3D Structure Of Amorphous Materials To Transform Technology Driven R&D Oct 22, 2008
Amorphous red phosphorus (a-rP) was first reported to be formed by A. Vogel in 1813 when sunlight was focused onto white phosphorus. During the 20th century, a-rP was studied intensely using a wide array of experimental and theoretical tools. (Science Daily)
LETTERS: NCT, July 18, 2008 Jul 19, 2008
I heard about the White Phosphorus and DN had a Pentagon spokesperson denying the story and the next day the Pentagon confermed it. I heard about the 47 civilians killed in Afghanistan on DN and just today in the NCTimes it was confermed that our military was lying about the dead being insurgents. (North County Times)
Coping with stresses of war Jun 12, 2008
A white phosphorus trip flare, that he was about to place on the perimeter of a fire base, went off in his pocket, inflicting burns, and he once had a bad reaction to a vaccination, but nothing serious, he said. He met a veteran at the seminar who tried to commit suicide by aiming a gun at his head, but he only succeeded in blinding himself. (Courier Publications, ME)
For former servicemen, an Ivy League outpost Jun 7, 2008
HANOVER, N.H. - On Nov. 9, 2004, three hours before Samuel Crist suffered the gunshot wounds that would reroute his life to the Ivy League, a photojournalist caught the Marine carrying a rocket launcher under a cloud of white phosphorus during the Battle of Fallujah. By the time the picture appeared in The New York Times the next morning, one bullet had torn through Crist's right arm, a second had lodged in his left leg, and a comrade was dead. (Boston Globe)
Letters for Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Feb 28, 2008
Remember that just in the past few decades, millions of deaths have resulted from the American use of atomic bombs, napalm, Agent Orange, depleted uranium ammunition and white phosphorus poison. Under the Clinton administration, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated that the deaths resulting from sanctions of thousands of Iraqi children were justified (quoted from an interview on a DVD called Genocide by Sanctions ). (Missoulian, MT)
Xposed! Norman Podhoretz's boobs Jan 25, 2008
pheromones with the intensity of a white phosphorus grenade (he's author of a book titled World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism - get the picture. . (Asia Times Online)
Zinn: A Violent Cartography Dec 22, 2007
One: The means of waging war (demolition bombs, cluster bombs, white phosphorus, nuclear weapons, napalm) have become so horrendous in their effects on human beings that no political end-- however laudable, the existence of no enemy -- however vicious, can justify war. . (Zmag.org)
Two lives blurred together by a photo Nov 11, 2007
A white phosphorus artillery round burst overhead, showering blazing-hot tendrils. We came across three insurgents lying in the street, two of them dead, their blood mixing with rainwater. (Los Angeles Times)
Raina: Right-Wing God Oct 17, 2007
--not to speak of the readiness to invade other countries on counterfeit pretences, using dirty uranium, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, inorder to assume the ownership of oil, and furnish the armament corporates opportunites to forge newer and deadlier weapons of mass destruction. As should be obvious, this can be an interminable list; yet the Right-Wing God does not seem to mind any of it, or think these abominations grounds for punishment. (Zmag.org)
Markland: Canada in Afghanistan pt 2 Oct 17, 2007
The plantations, some of which were burned, were able to withstand attempts to ignite them using diesel and white phosphorus. . (Zmag.org)
Afghan mission not make or break for NATO, Henault says Sep 9, 2007
Many of the protesters carried placards accusing NATO of using weapons filled with depleted uranium and bombs filled with highly flammable white phosphorus. The placards showed pictures of children grotesquely deformed by uranium and other children horribly scarred by phosphorus. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Jihadis strike back at Pakistan Sep 6, 2007
"This is natural retaliation for the oppression of Lal Masjid students and teachers. The government massacred hundreds of people and used white phosphorus to annihilate them, and now they expect peace?" Abu Hafs, a spokesman for the Lal Masjid movement, told Asia Times Online in a telephone conversation. Musharraf and his allies have been the target of militants for many years, and survived. (Asia Times Online)
Grossman: Anti-War & Military Aug 15, 2007
Taken to the extreme, they ask, should women drop 50% of the napalm, and gays and lesbians lob 10% of the white phosphorus shells. Yet this argument overlooks how discussing working conditions can be a conversation opener to reach GIs. (Zmag.org)
More of this story Aug 11, 2007
While at the arsenal, Pryor toured a white phosphorus facility, inspected a bio-protected mobile shelter and received a hands-on presentation of the Domestic Preparedness Equipment Technical Assistance Program (DPETAP), a Homeland Security function administered here by General Physics Corp. He said DPETAP is certainly deserving of congressional support ... Pryor said he had been looking forward to receiving an update on the white phosphorus facility the only plant of its type in North America... (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Sleeper Cell Aug 6, 2007
Those two little words that mean so much - white phosphorus - get a rare mention tonight ... Those two little words that mean so much - white phosphorus - get a rare mention tonight in the action-packed series finale of this American terrorism drama ... Sure, those two words are spoken by a terrorist (in one of several homilies delivered by characters from either side), but the fact remains that America's use of white phosphorus - which can burn people alive and to the bone - is less likely to... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
DiMaggio: U.S. Aid to Mideast Aug 2, 2007
Israel reportedly used white phosphorus chemical weapons against civilians with impunity, and in light of strong international protest. . (Zmag.org)
Appeal court quashes gag over White House meeting Jul 31, 2007
The British were concerned in particular about the US assault on Falluja, including the use of white phosphorus. Political Alerts. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Toxic metal takes shine off new lights Jun 24, 2007
Use a wet towel or wet paper towel to cover the break and soak up any residue, including glass shards and white phosphorus powder. Quickly dispose of shards and powder residue using an airtight bag. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
In Cuba's airport, signs point to lasting embargo Jun 18, 2007
Using white phosphorus in Iraq. Duke Cunningham. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Shalom: Perilous Power Interview Jun 6, 2007
" While Chomsky and Achcar would be highly critical of such claims, how would you specifically answer charges that the American press is an unwilling agent of Hezbollah and that the U.S. media is biased because of a focus on Israel's disproportionate violence? Shalom: Media bias is not revealed by whom its coverage favors, but by whom it favors given what's actually happening. So if the media portrays person X as a bully, that tells us nothing about media bias. If X is in fact a sweetheart,... (Zmag.org)
Dissent is unpatriotic? May 1, 2007
I'm not sure how to define "madman." But someone who attacks a defenseless nation that never threatened your own country and uses white phosphorus and depleted uranium, which also harms our own soldiers, to kill 655,000 of that country's civilians, including mothers and their children, is immoral. Family values, anyone. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Turning the rules upside down Apr 23, 2007
A WP round -- an artillery shell carrying burning white phosphorus -- wounded three men, and Britt carried them, one by one, sliding down the rocky mountain. He later received the Korean Wharang Medal for valor. (The St. Augustine Record)
Church does attack other religions Apr 7, 2007
" What makes beheading less civilized than Napalm, depleted uranium ordinance, daisy cutters, 223 rounds designed to tumble through fleshy mass, carpet bombing, white phosphorus, smart bombs, shock and awe? Suffering and death are just that, no chivalry in volved.". DD wrote on April 05, 2007 5:10 PM:"The two threads below was the predominant thought of the LDS church in my childhood. I cannot allow my children to be taught that this type of hateful belief is the true gospel of Jesus Christ,... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
- Jonathan Holmes Apr 4, 2007
Despite their prohibition under several international treaties and by the Geneva conventions, white phosphorus and a napalm derivative were used without discrimination on the civilian population of a city the size of Edinburgh throughout 2004. "I noticed something in the garden and it was a body but I couldn't really recognise it, and it looked really bad - it was a body with the colour green, and I have never seen this in all my life, and my work is dealing with dead bodies.". (Guardian Unlimited)
Joint Chiefs Chairman Declares Homosexuality Immoral Mar 14, 2007
Pace has responded to the various crimes committed by the American militaryabuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the use of white phosphorus against the population of Fallujah, the massacre at Hadithawith a combination of stonewalling, evasion and denial ... On November 30, 2005, Pace defended the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah, declaring that such munitions were a legitimate tool of the military, used to illuminate targets and create smokescreens ... Pace contended that... (Ocnus.net)
Bush, Blair, Howard attacked at summit Feb 5, 2007
Visitors to the exhibition start by walking through a mock spray of white phosphorus, a chemical agent that burns flesh, before entering a torture chamber labelled "Torture methods used here were used on prisoners of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib". Here, figures of naked men were gagged and strapped upside down to a metal-framed bed. (The Age)
Raina: Saddam's Execution Jan 2, 2007
Where Saddam had no WMDs, the imperialist invaders thought nothing of using genocidal weapons like cluster bombs, white phosphorus, and dirty uranium in pursuance of a Christian crusade ordained by God many thousands of miles from Manhattan. And, where the Bushies have been shown to have been in close oily embrace with the Bin Ladens for decades, (do recall that only one airplane was allowed to fly out of America after 9/11; it carried the entire Bin Laden clan. (Zmag.org)
