Reply #180: Thankx and I'm horrified by this:

[truedelphi]

"The bad news is that in my reports these are suspected undepleted uranium warheads. They are not fission weapons. But they burn with an intense flash and fireball sometimes leaving a shower of burning shrapnel as white stars. These have been confused with white phosphorus. They are not. Phosphorus has too low density for the shrapnel trajectories seen in TV and camera shots. Also burning phosphorus leaves a massive trail of white smoke. Uranium burns with black smoke, almost invisible in night pictures."

So even though the "nukes" end of the story is not played out in full (The explosion that is so massive is not a nuke - after all they only go off during certain protocols for detonation) what has been worrying at me is now a possibility: depleted uranium (DU)

In Vietnam, when you had a munitions fire - there was no DU hardening of weaponry. But both Iraq wars are a battleground wherein Depleted Uranium is used in the hardening of the US tanks and in the tips of the US missiles

Depleted Uranium is a tricky thing to understand. Should the US Army for whatever reason leave a DU hardened tank in my back yard, a simple covering with a few heavy duty quilts would stop the rays of the DU from affecting anyone in the back yard.

This is why so many scientists go on record to say that DU is safe. Even if there is no covering of quilts in that backyard tank, there is not an obvious health risk to anyone who is, for instance, sitting their butt on that tank for twelve hours at a time.

But once the DU hardened areas of the tank come under fire, and experience fission, DU is dangerous. Suspended and airborne, the particles are now able to adversely affect humans in the area (and those who receive fallout from the explosion hours or days later)