Russia is dusting off antique tanks from the 1940s, monitor group says, as its losses mount in Ukrai

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53. Actually the depleted uranium shells aren't any more radioactive then granite is

When it burns the the smoke will be toxic but so will the smoke from the alternatives like lead or tungsten.

Also any radioactivity released by depleted uranium are the much safer Alpha rays, not Gamma rays, and Alpha rays are stopped by just about anything, including skin.

The increase in cancers in Kuwait and southern Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War are much more likely to be from the several weeks of burning oil fields set alight by Hussein and the thousands of armored vehicles that tore up the pristine desert created an unprecedented (even for Arabia) dust cloud containing a very fine, talc like, sand and a lot of other nasty stuff, the oil smoke fumes are a known carcinogen and were far more abundant than the remains of depleted uranium shells.

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (CNN) -- In the waning days of the Persian Gulf War, as Iraqi forces retreated to Baghdad, Saddam Hussein sent a team of engineers into the Kuwaiti oil fields and blew up hundreds of wells.

Over the next seven months, more than 1 billion barrels of oil went up in flames, and Kuwait and much of the Persian Gulf was engulfed in a poisonous smoke, creating a large-scale environmental disaster.