ev. Although it has been scientifically proven and decades of experience have shown that bunker-busting bombs containing depleted uranium (DU) have numerous harmful and deadly consequences for soldiers, but above all for the civilian population, contaminating the environment and thus the habitat for a long time, it continues to be used and deployed recklessly. Since 2023, such tank shells have been supplied to Ukraine – according to a parliamentary response1, the United Kingdom supplied “14 Challenger 2 tanks capable of using depleted uranium shells to Ukraine, along with thousands of rounds of Challenger 2 ammunition including depleted uranium armour-piercing rounds.” It is unclear what the United States supplied. Israel apparently uses uranium weapons repeatedly – in the Gaza Strip, in Lebanon2, in Syria, and probably also in Iran. In 1991 and 2003 Iraq, in 1995 Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1999 Serbia/Kosovo, in 2001 Afghanistan – and today the Middle East and Ukraine.

The heavy metal DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment for use in nuclear power plants and the construction of atomic bombs. Easily available and cheap, it is primarily its weapon-technology characteristics respectively its physical and chemical properties that make it suitable for military and armament use in bunker-busting bombs or armour plating. Although it is not only the USA and Great Britain that have used this material. Due to its harmfulness to humans and the environment other countries have quietly replaced it with other materials (e.g. tungsten), among them Switzerland, too.
  However, the discussion in the Western media has been dominated by attempts to deflect, downplay or even suppress the issue, even though the radioactive and chemical toxicity of these weapons has been known for decades. Official bodies, not only in the United States and Great Britain, use a lot of scientific vocabulary to talk around the real problem: It is not the lump of heavy metal, which does actually not emit very strong radiation (although it is toxic in itself), but above all the aerosols produced when these weapons are used. These aerosols are created by combustion at immense temperatures at which everything burns up – blown away by the wind and carried by rain to the ground and water. This is all common knowledge. However, the ‘information’ provided to the public is a textbook example of how to (mostly) avoid lying directly, but instead deliberately misinform by distracting attention with irrelevant facts and omitting the crucial details. Or one is preventing relevant studies from becoming known and defaming those who think differently.
  The following compilation provides an insight into the known facts, but above all into how cynically people in war zones – civilians and military alike – are treated, but as well the own citizens and soldiers, people everywhere and how it is dealt with the health of many generations.
  This also shows how commendable Srđan Aleksić’s commitment is, not only for the people of Serbia and Kosovo.

Respirable and toxic alpha emitters 

“Depleted uranium has two excellent properties for military purposes. If it is shaped into a pointed rod and accelerated accordingly, its enormous weight allows it to penetrate steel and reinforced concrete with ease – like hot iron through a piece of butter. This causes abrasion on the uranium rod, which ignites spontaneously due to the enormous frictional heat, with temperatures between 3000 and 5000 degrees Celsius. When such a projectile pierce a tank in a fraction of a second, the depleted uranium catches fire and the soldiers inside the tank are incinerated.”3
  “At high temperatures of up to 5000 degrees Celsius, the uranium projectile burns to form ceramicised nanoparticles that are 100 times smaller than a red blood cell. This means that a metal gas is created, which further on remains radioactive and highly toxic.”4
  “The size of the uranium aerosols and the solubility of the uranium compounds in the lungs and gut influence the transport of uranium inside the body. Coarse particles are caught in the upper part of the respiratory system (nose, sinuses, and upper part of the lungs) from where they are exhaled or transferred to the throat and then swallowed. Fine particles reach the lower part of the lungs (alveolar region). If the uranium compounds are not easily soluble, the uranium aerosols will tend to remain in the lungs for a longer period of time (up to 16 years), and deliver most of the radiation dose to the lungs. They will gradually dissolve and be transported into the blood stream. For more soluble compounds, uranium is absorbed more quickly from the lungs into the blood stream.”5

… for they know what they are doing

“Terry Jemison at the US Department of Veterans Affairs stated in August 2004 that over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are now on medical disability, and that 7,039 were wounded on the battlefield in that same period.”6
  “DU weapons are very effective kinetic energy penetrators, but even more effective bioweapons since uranium has a strong chemical affinity for phosphate structures concentrated in human DNA.”7
  “Many renowned scientists, including those from the US military, have repeatedly stated that there is a link between the use of radioactive ammunition and serious illnesses. Here are just a few examples: The findings of Peter Nowell, founder of the Cancer Research Centre at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1976 state: ‘There is no doubt about the ability of radioactivity to cause cancer and also to promote cancer caused by other carcinogens.’ Dr John W. Gofman, former head of the Plutonium Research Group, issued a stark warning, too: ‘By all reasonable standards derived from scientific findings, there is no safe dose of radioactivity. There is no harmless alpha radiation absorbed by the body. If this is a fact, then any tolerated radiation exposure is tantamount to murder.’ Even the US Army’s Radiobiological Research Institute has admitted, based on the work of Dr Alexandra C. Miller and colleagues, that depleted uranium (DU) can cause cancer. They also found that tiny amounts, too small to be toxic and only weakly radioactive, cause more cytogenetic damage in cells than could be explained by their toxicity or radioactivity alone. Their latest results confirm a report by the British Royal Society, which suggests that the toxicity and radioactivity of DU reinforce each other in an unknown way, to such an extent that eight times more cells than predicted suffer cytogenetic damage. As a result, the carcinogenic and genotoxic health risks of DU have been massively underestimated in current government studies.”8
  “The British government and a court of the country recognised as early as 2004 that Gulf War veteran Kenny Duncan was entitled to a higher pension because the illnesses he contracted in the 1991 Gulf War were caused by inhaling depleted uranium.”9 •

https://www.zeit-fragen.ch/en/archives/2025/nr-15-8-juli-2025/pro-memoria-depleted-uranium-du

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