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Western military doctrine argues that because depleted uranium is heavy, radioactive dust produced by its use would fall to the ground within a radius of just 10 meters (30 feet) of the impact point.
Civilian researchers have suggested another possibility: the heat and combustion generated by the impact of a depleted uranium munition could cause it to become airborne and travel long distances, Injury and Murder People far away from the battlefield.
The UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology states: Explaining the double risk Effects of depleted uranium:
DU affects human health in two main ways: through chemical toxicity and through radiological effects (uranium emits ionizing radiation that can cause cancer).
The contradictions in claims about whether depleted uranium is harmless or poses serious health risks were highlighted in a 2006 BBC report. Reported A senior UN scientist has claimed that research proving depleted uranium causes cancer has been suppressed.
Legality
The British Army seemed to heed this warning when it announced in 2003 that it would phase out its then-advanced uranium-laced tank rounds. The announcement came shortly after reports of leukemia, kidney damage and lung cancer among French, Spanish and Italian soldiers following the US's extensive use of depleted uranium in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars in the late 1990s.
This looming reality is that birth defects and Cancer cases soar in Iraq These tests, in 1991 and again from 2003 to 2011, raise questions about the legality of depleted uranium as a weapon. As Busby states in his paper (emphasis added):
The issue of uranium aerosol dispersion from the battlefield is of significant legal concern because if a radioactive weapon were to cause general contamination of the civilian population in the deployed country or elsewhere, the weapon would: Indiscriminate effect.
Professor Busby said:
If the public truly understood what is happening to the environment as a result of the Ukrainian conflict, the wars would stop today..
responsibility
Which side is responsible for the use of radioactive weapons such as depleted uranium in the Ukrainian conflict?
in Recent InterviewsScott Ritter, a former US Marine and UN weapons inspector, explains that since 2000, only Western countries have used depleted uranium and other radioactive materials in weapons.
Around 2000, the Russians looked around and said, “Do you know what would happen if NATO used 30,000 depleted uranium shells in Kosovo? Leukemia skyrocketed. People started getting cancer because of exposure to depleted uranium. Do you know what happened in Iraq? Thousands of children were maimed.”
Russia has banned depleted uranium.
Birth defects caused by depleted uranium during the 2003-2011 Iraq War Very disastrous photograph, Investigative journalism, Foreign Policy Journal, documentary and Research PapersThe radiation damage caused by NATO's 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 will be reported in 2022 by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. This video As Minister for Foreign Affairs Wang Wenbin.
