[ RadSafe ] DU weapons threaten health ...

[Maury Siskel]

This letter to editor is too long for the List, but I could not resist 
posting enough that I hope some of you will read the whole thing -- it 
is amazing! Complete with Roger Helbig  "...   stalking the Internet, 
trying to intimidate anyone who suggests DU is not benign." This letter 
is a winner for DU extreme fiction!
And Roger, you better stop that stalking right now!!!
Best
Maury&Dog

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http://www.times-news.com/opinion/local_story_050102724.html?keyword=secondarystory


Depleted Uranium weapons threaten health of vets, civilians
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland,MD,USA

" ...How to explain a Department of Veterans Affairs study of 21,000 
veterans of Gulf War I that found birth defects in offspring ... twice 
as great for male vets and three times as great for female vets who 
served in the Gulf War? ... explain a 2006 Washington Post report that 
518,000 of 580,000 Gulf War vets were on disability, over half on 
permanent disability? ... explain over 13,000 dead Gulf War vets?

When a DU shell hits a hardened target, it bursts into flame and creates 
an invisible metal fume of nano-sized ceramic particles that are 
insoluble in body fluids. If these nano particles are inhaled, they 
provide contact radiation-half-life 4.5 billion years - and a source of 
heavy metal poisoning for the lymph nodes, spleen, heart, and central 
nervous system. ..."