From
Peter Eyre's blog page:
With the compliments of the United States of America they have developed one of the most lucrative exports in the world…….that of military
weapons and hardware. They have blasted Afghanistan with nuclear weapons since the start of the war and continue to do so.
followed by:
Finally to put things into perspective the west has released into the atmosphere, up to the current time (and continue to do so), the global
catastrophic impact of radiation equivalent to hundreds of thousands of Nagasaki bombs. This radiation has been released into the atmosphere from
depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Gaza with additional possible usage of 4th generation
nuclear weapons in Lebanon and Gaza.
How much "radiation" is actually released by DU?? well for starters DU is primarily an emitter of Alpha radiation - this stuff is stopped by paper,
your skin, or a few centimeters of air.
Alpha radiationis actually a particle the size of a
Helium 4 nucleus - 2 neutrons and 2 protons - an
Alpha Particle- quiet a large particle in
radiation terms.
These are extremely energetic, and becomes a problem if ingested and lodged inside organs - then the particles can do considerable damage in their
immediate area. Fortunately DU is actually a very weak emitter - with a "half life" of its components measured in billions and hundreds of millions
of years.
Uranium in the body has a half life of about 15 days - ie we excrete half of it every 2 weeks or so - so it diesn't emit a great deal of radiation in
that short time....but what it does emit is extremely dangerous.
compare with the Polonium 210 that was used to kill that Russian chap in the UK a couple of eyars ago - with a half life of about 140 days it is
massively more dangerous than DU - it releases many more particles in any given time period - 4 thousand times more than Radon 226 for example, with a
HL of 1600 years.
so handling DU is no great problem at all - not even as a toxic heavy metal.
But if you are in an area where it has been used to attack armoured vehicles then there is a fairly good chance there will be some of it (or a lot of
it) vapourised or broken down into dust, which can then be easily inhaled. And then you stand to get a double whammy - it is a toxic heavy metal when
ingested, plus the alpha radiation can do a lot of harm.
apparently this DU is what Eyre and others are refering as a "nuclear weapon", and I wonder if it is what he is refering to in this "new"
accusation - trying to sensationalise it up for sales??
Personally I think it is extremely dishonest "reporting" - as bad as any disinfo you think the MSM may be putting out.
DU is certainly a health hazard when reduced to dust or vapour - but it is about as "nuclear" as concrete!
AFAIK DU is used for armour piercing penetrators.
I'm sure the Taliban had some tanks that were KO'ed by such weapons - anyone got any idea how many? Were A-10's used in Afghanistan, or any of hte
land combat systems that use DU - M1 MBT's, Bradleys, etc?
