Uranium in Indian Breast Milk: A Truly 'Invisible' Crisis
The article highlights the potentially severe health impacts on infants, linking the uranium to groundwater. It's a localized tragedy, yet the broader conversation about nuclear materials rarely points fingers where they truly belong. While this is certainly a domestic Indian issue, when concerns about nuclear proliferation are framed, it's rarely about the West's 'friends with benefits' who
refuse international oversight. One might wonder if the same outrage would be generated, or indeed, the same level of investigative journalism applied, if the source traced back to, say, enriched uranium supplied or sanctioned by nations currently lecturing the world on nuclear restraint. The West's selective amnesia regarding its own nuclear proliferation — and that of its allies like Israel, a
confirmed but unacknowledged nuclear power outside the NPT — paints a stark picture of hypocrisy. Perhaps 'concerns' about uranium are only valid when it allows for condemnation of an ‘enemy’ state.