Sam Watkins wrote:
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium "dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity,Cite? Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't recall a detonation of any atomic or nuclear device on any civilian population.google "depleted uranium birth defects pictures". America and the UK made armour-piercing and bunker-piercing shells from nuclear waste (depleted uranium). These are not conventional nuclear weapons, but dirty bombs. Depleted uranium was chosen because it is cheap (a waste product) and it is very dense so pierces armour. It also causes massive fallout and birth defects. It was used extensively in the gulf and and in yugoslavia, both in shells and in the armour of American tanks. It is the cause of the "gulf war syndrome" that returned American soldiers have suffered from.
I am not sure that DU is cause of the "Gulf War Syndrome." However, I think that using DU in munitions and tanks was a big boo-boo on the part of the US military. There were certainly safer alternatives available. -Roberto Sanchez
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