Re: Humor for some, not for the overly sensitive

[Kim Merritt <Merritt9@llnl.gov>]

One of the prime rules of war is get it over as fast as possible.  If this
means using uranium rounds to kill the other guys tanks in a week rather
than slugging it out over the course of months or years, where is the fault
with that.  As for the toxicity:  If you are close enough to be present
when the uranium gets vaporized you probably won't care that it is toxic
because you will be dead.  A quick look at the TLV for uranium gives it a
TWA limit of 0.2 mg/m3.  However, looking at the TLV for lead (the most
commonly used small arms material) we see a TWA limit 0.05 mg/m3.  So how
does using uranium rounds make a battle field any more hazardous afterwards
than using lead rounds.  Never mind the unexploded ordinance, mines, etc.


| | | |    Kim Merritt, RRPT
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