Depleted Uranium, again
After the (first) Gulf war and in particular the Kosovo war, there was quite a bit of media scare about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in anti-tank ammunition, and many accusations that there was an increased occurrence of leukemia and other cancers. Medical studies were done on the soldiers that had served both places, but by the time the studies were completed, media's attention had moved elsewhere, so not many people heard that the claims were rejected as totally groundless.
Most of the sites you get if you google for DU are entirely worthless, as any application of a sensible bullshit detection kit will reveal pretty fast.
Pugwash is the nuclear disarmement organisation that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. On their websites they have one article that I have been able to find that discusses DU (in second half of article). It will be very difficult to dismiss Pugwash as being in cohorts with the industrial-military complexTM, and their all-but rejection of DU as particularly dangerous is well worth a note.
Rayne recently posted about DU, which prompted me to dig up some old material from the previous time this scare surfaced.
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