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Depleted uranium is a by-product of the enrichment process used to make nuclear fuel.  It has been used in armor-piercing ammunition and in armor for fighting vehicles.

Fine particles of depleted uranium are created when munitions made with the material strike a target.

A new study published in the journal Health Physics indicates that soldiers may absorb depleted uranium particles through inhalation, ingestion, or wound contamination.

U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical in their urine for years after their exposure.

More than 1,000 tons have been used in Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons in Iraq.

D.U. is causing permanent disability and death for hundreds of thousands of American veterans who served in the Middle East.

Depleted uranium contamination causes virtually every known illness from acute skin rashes, severe headaches, muscle and joint pain, and general fatigue, to major birth defects, infection, depression, cardiovascular disease, brain tumors, and every other type of cancer. Uranium replaces calcium, destroying teeth and bones.

Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, there is very little decay of those DU materials.

In May, 1997, the International Action Center published a book of essays and lectures on depleted uranium: the contamination of the planet by the United States military. In addition to exposing the deadly duplicity of the Department of Defense, the book documents the genocide of Native Americans and Iraqis by military radiation, the connection between depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, the underestimated dangers from low-level radiation, the legal ramifications of DU production and use, and the growing movement against DU.

Metal of Dishonor-Depleted Uranium: How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons
Depleted Uranium - Deadly, Dangerous and Indiscriminate