Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects

Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects
H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: “By 2003, reports were surfacing of cancer clusters and birth disorders in conflict areas of the Balkans and Iraq, raising fears about human exposure to depleted uranium (DU) and its fate and transport in war environments. Gulf War Syndrome, a catchall for mysterious and disabling symptoms and conditions suffered by nearly 40 percent of 540,000 veterans of the three-week ground war (which killed fewer than 200 US soldiers), remained an unyielding conundrum.”
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