Corporations are a major decision-making component of the power structure in this world. Therefore, it is imperative that we make them aware of our concerns about depleted uranium. Most companies involved in the development and sales of depleted uranium weapons are publicly traded companies. Many of these companies, such as General Electric and IBM, have a wide variety of products and services that you buy on a regular basis. As an example, General Electric owns NBC, sells 4 billion light bulbs and 15 million home appliances a year.

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Alliant Techsystems
Steve Wold, Director of Investor Relations
Steve_Wold@ATK.com
Telephone: 952 351-3056

Alliant makes depleted uranium shells for use in U.S. tanks, armored personnel carriers, and howitzers. As Damacio Lopez, Executive Director of the International Depleted Uranium Study Team (IDUST), notes in an October 2000 report, "DU is a highly toxic heavy metal with a radioactive half-life of four and one-half billion years. It is very appealing in military weapons because of its heavy weight and pyrophoric qualities which cause it to burn like a cutting torch through steel when a DU penetrator strikes a hard target."

Alliant’s DU shells are the subject of great controversy because of their impact on the environment and human health. Soldiers and civilians in the warzones of Iraq and Kosovo and on testing ranges like the one in Socorro, NM where open air testing of DU was conducted for more than 20 years, have suffered the short and long term health effects of ingesting radioactive dust, such as kidney problems, birth defects, cancers and death.

Weapons analyst William Arkin estimates that 300 tons of depleted uranium was dispersed during the Persian Gulf war, mostly from the 30mm and 120mm DU shells. In Kosovo, DU rounds were used with the A-10 warthog, which ran about 100 missions.

Alliant has produced over 15 million 30 mm PGU-14 shells (used in the A-10’s Gattling gun) for the U.S. Air Force and over a million 120mm M829 rounds (described by the Army as the world’s most lethal kinetic energy shell) for the U.S. Army. While the DoD denies any link between DU and the Gulf War Syndrome, which has affected more than 100,000 U.S. and Allied service people who "saw action" during the Gulf War, veterans groups and scientists both challenge this claim.

Here are the top Mutual Fund Holders of Alliant Stock. Let them know of your concern as well.

Price (T. Rowe) Mid Cap Growth Fund holds nearly $250 million in Alliant Techsystems stock.

Steve Norwitz - Steve_Norwitz@troweprice.com
Brian Lewbart - Brian_Lewbart@troweprice.com
Robyn Brenza - Robyn_Brenza@troweprice.com

EQ Advisors Trust-Eq/Alliance Common Stock Portfolio, as in Equitable Insurance, holds nearly $80 million in stock of Alliant Techsystems.
Peter D. Noris is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of AXA Financial, Inc., its principal insurance subsidiary The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and AXA Financial Services, LLC. Mr. Noris is responsible for managing Equitable Life’s general account investment portfolio and its oversight of separate account mutual fund managers.
peter.noris@axa-financial.com

Marcia Tierney is the Vice President, External Communications for Equitable.
marcia.tierney@axa-financial.com

Neuberger & Berman Genesis Fund holds nearly $145 million in stock in Alliant Techsystems.
Janet Prindle and Ingrid S. Dyott are the managers of their socially responsible investing arm. How responsible are they?
sriinquiries@nb.com

Here are some of the financial analysts that are providing investor research for Alliant. Maybe they should know too!

Friedman, Billings, Ramsey?International, Ltd.
Patrick McCarthy - pmccarthy@fbr.com

BAE Systems
andrew.wrathall@baesystems.com
andy.mann@baesystems.com
BAE Systems became the biggest arms producing company in the world after merging with GEC and acquiring $1.67bn of Lockheed Martin's Aerospace Electronics Systems.

BAE Systems started out as British Aerospace in 1977. In February of 1981, the British government sold 51.57% of its shares to the public. In May of 1985, the UK Government sold its remaining BAE shares but kept a special £1 share to ensure that the company remains under UK control. A detailed time line of company developments can be found at: www.baesystems.co.uk/facts/pages/evolution.htm

RO Defence, formally Royal Ordnance, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BAE Systems which specialises in munitions and armaments. It currently employs 3,500 staff located in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands and has an order book of nearly1 billion. RO Defence's products, which are exported to almost 50 countries worldwide, include high explosives, artillery and artillery ammunition, small arms and medium calibre ammunition, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems.8 It also makes 105mm and 120mm Depleted Uranium-tipped shells.

The company owns 37.5% of MBDA, the world's second largest missile manufacturer. MBDA has 32 missile programmes underway and a further 23 in development.

BAE Systems is collaborating with Lockheed on the Theatre Nuclear Missile Defence.

Lockheed Martin
James Ryan, VP – Investor Relations
James.R.Ryan@IMCO.com
LMT engages in the research, design, manufacture and integration of advanced technology products and services ranging from aircraft, spacecraft and launch vehicles to missiles, electronics, information systems and energy management.

General Electric
Richard Wacker, VP – Corporate Investor Relations
Richard.Wacker@corporate.ge.com
GE is a diversified industrial corporation whose products include appliances, lighting products, aircraft engines and plastics. GE also provides television, cable, internet, distribution, engineering and financial services. The Company's business is divided into the following segments: Aircraft Engines, Commercial Finance, Consumer Finance, Consumer Products, Equipment Management, Insurance, NBC and Power Systems.

Northrop Grumman
Gaston Kent, VP – Investor Relations
investor_relations@mail.northgrum.com
Northrop provides products, services and solutions in defense electronics, systems integration, information technology, nuclear and non-nuclear shipbuilding, and space technology.

Cameco Corporation
Gerald Grandey, CEO
Gerald.Grandey@cameco.com
Cameco Corporation is a uranium producer and a commercial provider of uranium and conversion services. Cameco sells its uranium for use by electric utilities in the nuclear generation of electricity. In addition to uranium mining, Cameco is one of the four commercial converters of uranium.

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