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lovuian

She might mean the BIG ONES who level a city of millions in a blast And if that is the case, only ONE nation as i know it have ever USED the bomb... And we all know which country that is... So no name is needed to point to direction I guess..

DU ammo is a waste product from production of nuclear fission, and is low radiated (as I know it then) compared to other nuclear waste products.. But still it IS radioactive, and it is still a waste product.. The reason the US, and other nations is using Du ammo is because it is cheap compared to other type of ammo with the same penetration range.. And it is also easy to produce compared to other type of ammo.. And even small amount of DU ammo is enough to blow large holes in everything from T55 to the newest western tanks.. It is versatile and cheap.. And can and is used in most conventional weapon of today..

The other side of the weapon, who you never will be told by they who made the weapon, and who in the first case decided DU is a smart metal to have on weapon, is that it is poisonous, and can/Will harm large areas because of the radiation. DU is really a horrible weapon for the enemy then.. It burns skin and bones to nothing is there.. And even US enlisted and officers have told stories that when they used DU on iraq Tanks in the first golf war, the tanks could burn for days - not just from the ammo and the petrol inside, but also from the Heat the DU managed to produce when they fired the weapons...

I'm not sure what to say about it, but I would say that DU is a form of nuclear weapon, even tho it doesn't blow up like their bigger brothers and sisters and level a whole city. As long as it is radioactive - as DU ammo is, it should be recognized as a form of small nuclear weapon and be used like that - never.

The only reason no country have used a nuclear weapon after 1945 is because the weapons itself was in a way to big to be used.. Even if both Warsaw and NATO pact country's do had plans for using nuclear weapons on a central european war front, everything from "Small" tactical weapons to city busters was planed if the two forces ever got into action.. It never materialized thankfully, even it was close more than one time between 1948 and 1989.. Today both the will and the technology is seen to make the weapons so small both in zise and in Yeld, that someone believe for real that nuclear weapon can and should be used against the enemy.. The problems is that the first nation in modern time who use a nuclear weapon even if the yield is "small" compared to other systems Will be given all the contempt it deserve.. The past Republican Administration of mr Bush jr, more than one treated the world with the use of nuclear weapon, if they dosen play by the book of them.. If a Administration who was more stubborn and less willing to play ball with the world at large, then what?. (even it Will be hard to go more down than the republican administration of mr Bush jr then) Should US as the biggest spender of weapon also be allowed to USE the weapon, even a small, small tactical weapon against country the US doesn't trust or like?. Or should every nuclear weapon state be allowed to make a pre-emtive strike when needed?...

I for one would hope to give my children (when that time comes) a near nuclear free weapon world to their future. It is so dead wrong to even think about the billions of billions who have been used to dig holes in the ground, to put missiles with nuclear weapon on them, to stand guard in more than 60 year now, against an enemy who also had the nuclear weapon, and who also used trillions of dollars, to waste it on a war who thankfully never materialized itself because both sides had to much to loose to risk it.. But darn it was close many times and even if the Cuba crises was the most known it is many other times both sides had their nuclear weapons on standby. Billions of dollars, who could and should have been used to give us a better future than past.. If the world have spend so many money on peace as they have been doing on war, i really doubt that it would have been necessary to have nuclear weapons, or an army for that case... And the military industry had always survived, they could always try to explore the galaxy..

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