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Steve Smith wrote:
> The depleted-uranium claim is specious, AFAIK. We have only one weap that
> uses it: the 30mm Gatling gun on the nose of the A-10 "Warthog" tank buster.
> Note that altho we used A-10s in Gulf War I (against the Repub Guard's
> T-72s), we never deployed them during Op Iraq Freedom. Moreover, DU isn't
> radioactive, so it's unlikely to cause cancer.

This happened in the Gulf War, and well over 300 tons were fired, both
by A-10s and by tanks. An A-10 round was 300g of solid U-238, and a tank
round was 4,500g.

There is no need for something to be radioactive in order to cause
cancer. In any case, as you know the warheads use Uranium-238 which is a
"fertile" isotope, converting readily to (radioactive) plutonium, or to
(radioactive) uranium oxide (the problem in Iraq)