Professor Asaf Durakovic... is one of the world’s leading experts on radiation, and sees a familiar pattern. ‘Any doctor who becomes involved in this [depleted uranium] is pressurized, fired; records and samples go missing...’

Ray Bristow, of the British Gulf Veterans and Families’ Association, echoes Durakovic: ‘Dosimeters (which read radiation levels) issued to troops were at first denied as being issued at all, then we were told the records were lost, then that the readings were all normal – but no-one was allowed to see them. Medical records of Gulf War vets regularly go missing.’