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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

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The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (66 children)

Every person involved in making this decision deserves to be buried in an unmarked grave with the weapons they love so much. How many innocent people completely uninvolved with the war are going to grow up suffering the effects of depleted uranium rounds? Another absolutely monstrous decision in a long line of monstrous decisions by the US government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

They aren't that dangerous as a weapon of war. The uranium is depleted, as the name suggest. The alternative is heavy metal, which is also dangerous to breathe in. It's war and it sucks for health. Maybe there shouldn't have been an invasion...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Uranium is a very dangerous heavy metal, it just isn't radioactive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere did I make the claim that it was, that doesn't change a thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm replying to the person replying to you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

My bad, I got the colors of the bars mixed up

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