Iraq Under Siege
Ten Years On
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9201421 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Arnove (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 14 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-052-07-2000-11_2 |
| OpenAlex | W2029890092 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It has been ten years since the United Nations imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iraq. The sanctions were adopted on August 6, 1990, forty-five years to the day after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated one hundred thousand people and leaving a toxic legacy that still affects the population of the area. The bombing was soon followed by an attack on Nagasaki. The coincidence is a telling one. For all the US government's rhetoric about halting the use of weapons of mass destruction, the United States stands in a league of its own in using and proliferating them. As horrific as the use of nuclear weapons against Japan was, perhaps five to ten times as many people have died in Iraq as a consequence of the war led by the United States and Britain, under United Nations (UN) auspices, during the last decade.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Ancient history · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · League · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Population · Rhetoric · Sanctions · Siege · Sociology · Demography · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2016 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |