Depleted uranium making all wars nuclear
For the past decade, America's leaders have fought to prevent depleted uranium (DU) ammunition from being declared a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations, despite knowing that exposure to this poisonous substance guarantees cancer, birth defects and a host of other lethal health hazards. Despite tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans in bad health that many have blamed on DU and many veterans of the conflict in Yugoslavia now urinating uranium, the politicians and generals have refused to ban this deadly substance because it is simply too effective a weapon. And they continue to deny appropriate health care to U.S. military veterans who have suffered because of it.
Why is DU such a good weapon? Because it hardens the tank shells and makes them more effective. Also, the material is readily available from America's vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. As an alternative, Germany uses tungsten to coat its shells, eliminating the radioactivity but having a far great cost because tungsten has to be mined while uranium waste is lying around everywhere.
Fair, America has rarely treated it's veterans fairly while insisting on the best weapons.
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