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At the beginning of time there was created the evil spirit Uranium, which deformed children and killed their parents with horrible diseases. Mungu (God) fought with the demon and trapped his power throughout the earth in the ground, tied into the rocks.
“Now greedy men wish to free the demon to use his powers to make money, but the effects will be terrible and you must not allow it."
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Depleted Uranium encased bombs that have been used since 1991 by US and NATO forces. These weapons were used in Gulf War 1 against Iraq, then in the Balkans and later, after 9/11 events, in Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa, Libya and now being used in Drone bombings in Pakistan.
U.S. and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability. Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain, unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes, and ultimately, cancer and premature death await those exposed to DU.
Award-winning journalist Will Thomas wrote: "As the last Gulf conflict so savagely demonstrated, GI immune systems reeling from multiple doses of experimental vaccines offer little defense against further exposure to chemical weapons, industrial toxins, stress, caffeine, insect repellent and radiation left over from the last war. This is a war even the victors will lose."
Shortly after 9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear weapons including small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited to commando warfare in Afghanistan.
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith writes in the Village Voice: "Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing for smashing through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the force of an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT".
gardener
Coming to a theater near you..
Uranium: the Demon Metal That Threatens Us All
At the beginning of time there was created the evil spirit Uranium, which deformed children and killed their parents with horrible diseases. Mungu (God) fought with the demon and trapped his power throughout the earth in the ground, tied into the rocks.
“Now greedy men wish to free the demon to use his powers to make money, but the effects will be terrible and you must not allow it.
FissionSurplus
Thank you for bringing this subject up. Every war zone since the early 90s has been horrifically irradiated with DU munitions. The local people that survived and went on to have children with heartbreaking birth defects are a testament to this fact. The pictures I have seen haunted me for months afterward.
The queen and her precious uranium mines have death and destruction on her hands, but apparently it doesn't disturb her one bit.
gardener
‘Depleted Uranium’ has nothing depleted about it: when this hard metal hits a solid surface like concrete or a battle tank, the temperature at the point of impact reaches over 40000C and turns the projectile into uranium oxide gases...
Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability...
Shortly after 9-11, the U.S. announced it would stockpile tactical nuclear weapons including small neutron bombs, nuclear mines and shells suited to commando warfare in Afghanistan...
Describing the Pentagon's B-61-11 burrowing nuke bomb, George Smith writes in the Village Voice: "Built ram tough with a heavy metal casing for smashing through the earth and concrete, the B-61 explodes with the force of an estimated 340,000 tons of TNT".
signalfire
Turns out not all the munitions use 'depleted' uranium. Apparently some have contained enriched bomb-grade uranium.
Bedlam
Sure it is. It's depleted of U235. It's nearly pure U238. That's the depleted part. Not having the U235 isotope doesn't change the fact that it's pyrophoric. That part is not "nuclear", it's chemical.
It's not fallout. Fallout refers to material that has been made radioactive by secondary activation after having been sucked through the fireball of a nuclear weapon. DU is not a nuclear weapon, and has no 'fallout'. It is not very radioactive. The reason it makes you sick is that it's a toxic heavy metal.
Horsecrap. There aren't any small neutron bombs - you have to have a fullbore thermonuke, there's a minimum size to fire the secondary. And we don't officially stock them anymore. So I sincerely doubt "it was announced". Same with nuclear mines and shells. Don't make 'em, haven't for decades.
gardener
Bedlam's classic rebuttal to DU's dangers is a classic example of the mentality only an arrogant country that already dropped nukes on another, and its arrogant citizens, would stoop to:
1: Notice the immediate comparison to nuclear. No one mentioned it being nuclear here, yet there it is, the argument that its not nuclear.
2: Assigning "nuclear" fallout to fallout. And reiterating DU is not a nuclear weapon (DUh!) Now why do I doubt this guy goes around telling scientists, journalist who write "radioactive fallout" or "nuclear fallout" that they are being redundant, that they should just say "fallout"?
A non-arrogant would admit a toxic chemical raining down upon civilization could indeed be termed a DU fallout =D
3: Talking on behalf of the entire bloody shadow government! How humble.
Bedlam
signalfire
Turns out not all the munitions use 'depleted' uranium. Apparently some have contained enriched bomb-grade uranium.
Why? Why would you use unbelievably expensive bomb alloy on a non-nuclear weapon? Citation needed.
signalfire
Turns out not all the munitions use 'depleted' uranium. Apparently some have contained enriched bomb-grade uranium.
I know what you mean about the DU deformed baby pictures. They're the stuff of nightmares. I wonder what the babies being born to US veterans look like...
Anyone who thinks DU is no big deal, I DARE you to do a search on depleted uranium babies. Have a bucket handy.
RomeByFire
reply to post by Bedlam
Care to provide any links for any of the information you presented? I mean, OP did kindly enough so. Without any links, this is nothing more than your opinion, and spare me your position of authority fallacy, your opinion is nothing more than exposition without providing any sources when what you're arguing against does.
In lay terms, Mr. Armchair expert, care to address any of the links presented? Since you're so knowledged on the subject, educate those who are ignorant of the matter.
Every tonne of natural uranium produced and enriched for use in a nuclear reactor gives about 130 kg of enriched fuel (3.5% or more U-235). The balance is depleted uranium tails (U-238, typically with 0.25-0.30% U-235). This major portion has been depleted in its fissile U-235 isotope (and, incidentally, U-234) by the enrichment process. It is commonly known as DU if the focus is on the actual material, or tails if the focus is on its place in the fuel cycle and its U-235 assay.
DU is pyrophoric, so that upon impact about 30% of the projectile atomises and burns to uranium oxide dust
Rosinitiate
reply to post by Bedlam
So instead of correcting terminology or diverting the topic away from the stated issue in the OP, why not contribute your thoughts to the shelf life of DU dust in the soil or the bodies who ingest it and the offspring who come after? Or is that not part of your directive?
vethumanbeing
Because its whispered about that "The Ark of the Covenant" actually contained Uranium.