"No one has warned the vendor in the faded, threadbare black
gown to keep the toxic and radioactive dust off her produce. The
been told not to play with the radioactive debris. They gather
around as a Geiger counter carried by a visiting reporter starts
singing when it nears a [depleted uranium] bullet fragment no
bigger than a pencil eraser. It registers nearly 1,000 normal
background radiation levels on the digital readout. ... In
partial Pentagon disclosure of the amount of DU used in Iraq, a
US Command spokesman told the Monitor that A-10 Warthog aircraft
- the that shot at the Iraqi planning ministry - fired 300,000
bullets. normal combat mix for these 30-mm rounds is five DU
bullets to 1 - a mix that would have left about 75 tons of DU in
Iraq. ... In the War, US forces used 320 tons of DU, 80 percent
of it fired by A-10 -- Christian Science Monitor. May 15, 2003.
Emphasis added.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html It is the
exploded DU shell dust everywhere that is most dangerous. Espec