"Redbaiter" <don't@no-spam> wrote in message
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>
> The real threat - not only to U.S. troops but to Iraqis as well - may
prove
> to be a weapon scarcely mentioned before, during or after the war:
depleted
> uranium.
Oh really? Does the word "depleted" mean anything to you, fake Redbaiter?
"Redbaiter" <don't@no-spam> wrote in message
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> "John Sefton" <js64@no-spam> wrote in message
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> > Correct. Depleted uranium has run out of the bulk of its radiactivity.
It
> is
> > therefore effectively harmless, from the radioactivity standpoint.
> >
>
> You must work for the military to believe that.
No, I just remember my basic high-school physics: If depleted uranium has a
half-life of billions of years, then its radioactivity output must be so low
as to be negligible. IIRC, in Kosovo the background radiation of the
country-rock was higher than that put out by the depleted uranium shells.