Harry: I must have missed the bit when NATO nuked Belgrade. Which year was it?
From my link "Death by slow burn"
For years, the U.S. and NATO fired DU missiles, bullets and shells across the Balkans, nuking the peoples of Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. As DU munitions were slammed into chemical plants, the environment became hideously toxic, also endangering the peoples of Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary. By 1999, UN investigators reported that an estimated 12 tons of DU had caused irreparable damage to the Yugoslavian environment, with agriculture, livestock and air water, and public health all profoundly damaged.38
Scientists confirm that citizens of the Balkans are excreting uranium in their urine.39 In 2001, a Yugoslavian pathologist reported that hundreds of Bosnians have died of cancer from NATO's DU bombardment.40 Many NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans now suffer ill health. Their leukemias, cancers and other maladies are dubbed the "Balkans Syndrome." Richard Coghill predicts that DU weapons used in Balkans campaign will result in at least 10,000 cases of fatal cancer.41
Harry: Depleted Uranium is not a nuclear weapon
From my link "Nukes of the gulf war"
Some DU ingested through breathing and wounds lodges permanently in bones and tissue, and acts as a chemical and radiological toxin for the remainder of a person's presumably-shortened lifetime. The Military Toxins Project reports that "large numbers of children near contaminated areas have developed leukemias and other health problems" likely associated with exposure to DU.
Sources:
"Collateral Damage: How U.S. Troops Were Exposed to Depleted Uranium During the Persian Gulf War," Dan Fahey, Swords to Plowshares Depleted Uranium Network of the Military Toxins Project.
U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute: Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium in the U.S. Army, Technical Report, June 1995.
U.S. General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: "Early Performance Assessment of Bradley and Abrams," January 2, 1992.
The Nation Magazine, October 21, 1996, "The Pentagon's Radioactive Bullet" by Bill Mesler.
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