Word: armorers
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...evil that Furst, 60, writes about so passionately is the arrogance of power exercised at the expense of ordinary men. Once he saw a police state, he was angry for the rest of his life. "I hate what people do to people," he says. "I have no armor against it. It's always fresh to me. I can't stand it." That anger has given birth to five novels that attracted a cult following, but the recently published Kingdom of Shadows (Random House; 239 pages; $24.95) is provoking mainstream attention...
...plunge through Germany's Fulda Gap. Iraq is contained, and North Korea is mellowing. Instead, threats are festering in less-developed regions, such as the Balkans and Africa, where heavy guns generally can't maneuver. Artillery--with its less than precise targeting--is designed to disrupt the massed armor and troop concentrations found on traditional battlefields. But future conflicts will focus on swift, dispersed combatants that provide scant prey for artillery...
...least 17 soldiers (15 of them from leukemia) from European armies since being deployed on peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo has raised an outcry in Europe, and some of their governments believe the cause of their illnesses may lie in the ammunition used by NATO against Serbian armor and artillery positions in both regions. Not so, say the U.S., Britain and NATO headquarters, citing extensive scientific research by the World Health Organization, among others, to support their assertion that there's no link between depleted-uranium ammunition and the illnesses that killed the European peacekeepers. Still, the U.S. issued...
...Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high ratio of mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is acknowledged to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly ingested, inhaled or absorbed through cuts. That knowledge, and the circumstantial link between high rates of illness and service in territories where NATO has fired large amounts of depleted-uranium ordnance, is enough to have European NATO members demanding further discussion over...
...impact of depleted uranium may press the Pentagon to mount further studies in the coming years. But until they?ve proved a connection between illness and the ordinance, it's a safe bet that when an A-10 is being armed to go after some enemy?s armor, it'll be carrying depleted-uranium rounds...