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...Chao, wife of Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, is the former director of the Peace Corps and a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. She also served as deputy secretary of transportation under former President Bush...
...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 the alliance's favorite tank-busting ammunition. And the acknowledged risks attached to direct contact with depleted-uranium particles has also prompted the WHO to warn that children playing in former conflict zones could be at high risk. But a United Nations Environmental Program study of Kosovo anticipated shortly is expected to find that radiation...
...Dominic Moore was warming up before the game, he felt that he had a little something special in the tank...
...such ordnance, which has also been the focus of considerable speculation in relation to so-called Gulf War Syndrome. But in the absence of definitive proof of a connection between depleted-uranium and various soldiers' ailments, the Pentagon isn't about to scrap its favorite tank-busting hardware...
...speculation over its potential health effects focus on its toxicity as a heavy metal. It is precisely its weight - 1.7 times that of lead - that allows depleted-uranium shells to pass through all sorts of armored surfaces that might stop steel, brass or copper, and makes it an attractive tank-busting weapon. Depleted-uranium ordnance was originally used on A-10 tank-busting bombers, but during the Kosovo campaign was used in an even wider range of weapons...