FRAGMENTS OF the armor-piercing munitions now litter the valleys and neighborhoods between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. That’s where most of the combat occurred and where most of Iraq’s 24 million people live.
Wounded fighters and civilians also may carry depleted uranium shrapnel in their bodies.
Many medical studies have failed to show a direct link between DU exposure and human disease, though a study of rats linked intramuscular fragments with increased cancer risk. Test-tube experiments also suggest DU may trigger potentially dangerous changes in cells.
The munitions are conventional and do not generate a nuclear blast. Depleted uranium, a very dense metal fashioned from low-level radioactive waste, allows t
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