Depleted Uranium, or DU, is used to harden armaments and equipment. The title "Depleted" is a "play on words", as some Uranium enriched within the past 60 years has a half-life of more than 4 billion years. Attached is a well documented paper on DU and its use and health effects, as known, and like much of the nuclear material to which people have been exposed, suspected.

To read this paper, submitted by a health expert to a member of the U.S. Congress, click here.

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