US sent Uranium-based munitions to Israel & Ukraine
(theworld.org)
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Once it enters an organism, it leaves when they're dead. If it gets into the water table it gets into the crops, and if it gets into the crops it gets into the people. Then cancer and birth defects skyrocket.
Walking along the "highway of death" in Iraq where DU was used on Iraqi tanks gives people symptoms of radiation poisoning.
Look, I could shrug off /watchpeopledie, but the stillborn radiation-poisoned babies from after Gulf War 1 are truly the stuff of nightmares.
think about it this way... bullets are made out of lead, and DU rounds are 70% more dense than lead. commonly in 30mm, 20mm, and up to 120mm, they're fucking huge. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/30mmvs556nato.jpg. that's a 30mm compared to a coin and a 5.56.
conventional warfare principles state that using 30mm on humans is such overkill that it's a waste of ammo.
It contaminates everything. We transported 800 tons of contaminated dirt to the US from Iraq so it could be disposed of at Hanford.
Breathing in DU dust is death. It obliterates your internals.
if you get hit by a 30mm shell, you're not dying from heat or shedding or toxic DU dust. a 30mm is not a 22. you're not getting up after that. it's a very high kinetic energy round that's bigger than a beer bottle. you're not getting up from that because the entry wound is the size of a fucking baseball. the exit wound is the entire back half of whatever it hit.
If used on a man that round will obliterate a man, hit an eventual hard surface like the earth, and turn into a fine radioactive dust that is all over the dirt.
It is only emitting alpha particles which your skin can handle. You could hold a DU round in your hands for 20 years and suffer no ill effect.
The problem is the environmental effects.
We used DU rounds in the battle of Fallujah. The amount of radioactive dust we introduced into the environment caused birth defects and miscarriages to jump to levels last seen at Hiroshima. It was an absolute human travesty. Far worse than anything we claimed Hussain did. America destroyed the genetics of a large portion of a town because they didn't want to be occupied by an invading force.