Can the terrorists use the depleted uranium in American Tanks?
822340
Nothing to worry about. The main reason for using depleted uranium is mass. It makes excellent armor and at the same time doesn't have to be thick.
812863
lol...i think they will do that.... call every body else as "Terrorist"\n\notherwise they would have destroyed their nuke first.....they just want to keep their nukes and restrained others not to keep them..by saying....."deadliest weapon ...we are still sad after using on Japan twice........ (bull*s*hit)........Just to keep hold on others..
575377
I think they only used them during the second world war to ultimately put them to the test in a live situation and its easier than losing troops.I do think they will on a place with lots of natural resources and gases,(Iraq-Iran)it will have to be something big for America to use it due to world opine on,if they were to attack us then yes but there is a 1% chance out of 100 that any one would be that stupid,but you never know.
999817
it is a threat to internional security for ANY ONE to have nukes .\niran ,the usa ,any one that has them is a threat to the world
495632
How?\n\nIf you mean the guerilla, then no, because thy kill anyone.
366884
Who told you that,they have nukes but they dont want to use it for...\nmaybe they are dangerous for countris like:Israel ,USA... that they Scare from Iran
735437
I don't think America would like to be the ones to let the Genie out of the bottle again. See, we used the bomb to end WW2 and saved not only American Lives, but Japanese lives too. It was estimated that over a MILLION people would die if we invaded Japan.\n\nThe trouble with nukes is they are area wide weapons. It takes out everyone, good people, kids, bad people, and anything else in that area. America would much rather try to do things conventional if they could.\n\nI think that we need to send the message, world wide, that if a nuke goes off, or a dirty bomb in the US, what ever country support that group that committed that crime, will be visited by us. We will bring the million degrees of heat and they supply the sand and we will turn their country into a glass parking lot.\n\nWe cant let terrorist run our country, even with threats of attack. We have to stand strong, or bend over and kiss it good bye cause, they will come after us if we leave Iraq undone and incomplete.\n\nAre you listening Democrats???? Then who are you going to blame for that attack????
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Why did they use depleted uranium (DU) I have no idea except that maybe they are conducting genocide.\n\nI am amazed and totally distressed at the cruelty and disrespect for human life, and total lack of knowledge that I have seen all throughout Yahoo answers. It is OK not to know, but don't shun, make fun or use abusive language when someone else has another point of view, check it out, think about it and analyze it, then make up your mind. Right Democratic freedom lovers and practices??\n\nFor those of you who have stated that DU has no effects, if you care to correct your knowledge, you may check the sites below. If you want to remain ignorant of facts, it's up to you.\n\nBut one thing for certain DU has not and will not only affect the "Bad" Arabs / Muslims, it as also affecting your soldiers and their generations to come. \n\nIf you truly care for them as most of you claim, please check the sites and know more to be able to do more and do what's right and that means to act instead of just spreading obnoxious and incorrect information.\n\nI do apologize if I have offended anyone by my words,  but people, this is serious and it will / is affecting everyone whether we like it or not.
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Time\n\nThey have already demonstrated that they can enrich uranium.  Encriching it to weapons grade is the same process, but longer.\n\nSome people were guessing it would be a couple years until they could produce a bomb, but in the news the other day their muslim version of george bush boasted it will be sooner, which may or may not be true.
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Yes.  Last I heard they put the waste in barrels and bury them underground in an area where accidental leakage has the most difficult route into the surrrounding land and groundwater.\n\nIt's can't be toxic (non-radioactive) because this is the natural byproduct of fission reaction - Uranium or Plutonium after undergoing fission breaks into smaller radioactive fragments of lighter elements which remain in the spent fuel rods.\n\nTechnically it might be possible to render this waste non-radioactive by bombarding it with high energy particles from a particle accelerator and inducing another nuclear reaction after another until the waste undergoes a reaction that stabilizes it and removes or reduces the radioactive content.  \n\nSomething like this would (total guess here) take some 10-100 times the energy that was released.  And i'm not sure it can be done - though theoretically it should be possible - even something like generating antimatter and annihilatng the waste.  Extreme cost, uncertain result.
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if by we, you mean us and uk, then yes.\nsaw a very disturbing documentary about depleated uranium shells which were supposedly not used during first gulf war.\nguy using a giga-counter (?) actually recieved a pre-programmed audible warning to leave the area immediately. that was while examining a destroyed tank on which children were playing. many birth defects / still births in the same area and around the country.\nthe victors write the history books.\n\nworlds fked up.\n\nalso bradley is not only vehicle that uses dep uranium - a10 aircraft too. have gun is fool.
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We can and for some reason we don't want to.  I read a Time Magazine article a couple years back around the anniversary of 9/11 it was a time table of the hunt for Bin Laden.  It noted at the very least 4 times when Osama Bin Laden was in the sites of our fire power and we hedged.  Once he was with a Prince of EAU and we didn't want to risk injuring Arab royalty- do we not have sharpshooters?  for another article that is amazing go to this url:\n\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522484/from/RL.2/\n\n\nOr this one:\n\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522484/from/RL.2/\n\nor this one:\n\nhttp://www.rushonline.com/visitors/osama.htm
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James's answer about the amounts you would need to inhale/absorb are correct, but I would disagree with his "rare" statement.  A lot of depleted Uranium is used by the military in armour piercing rounds as it is about 10 to 100 times denser than lead.\n\nUnfortunately its use is hazardous and exposes the operators and the target to highly absorbable vapourised and finely powdered depleted Uranium.  This has been linked with Gulf war syndrome in our troops from both Gulf wars where a lot of armour piercing  ammuntion was fired.  The effects on the target are unknown, and we should be watching for signs of radiation sickness in the Iraqi population and rise in birth defects etc as this toxic material builds up in the population.
1167433
yes...in theory...it would require useing our nuclear arsensal and kill everyone on the planet not within our borders and then it would require a secret police and racial profiling concentration camps...\n\nit can be done.....only in thee extreme. i of course  believe in defeating them in various methods besides just tactical force....
325975
Of course they should.  Unfortunately, if the left-wing extremist liberals have their way they will nuke us first.
748939
I assume you are talking about extracting the Plutonium and Uranium 235 from the spent fuel currently stored in casks and storage pools.  Yes, it is feasible to cull these isotopes from the waste fuel, and use it to make new fuel to place back in reactors to make electrical power.\n\nThe spent fuel currently stored in casks generate very little heat outside the cask and not enough in the casks to be a practical source for electrical generation.
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Considering that nations that officially have nuclear weapons have tested them within their own borders, and sometimes even deliberately on their own people... I see absolutely no reason why they couldn't use them internally in self defense.\n\nTo some extent, this goes back to the creation of the tactical nuclear strategy developed by the US, as a member of NATO, to defend Western Europe during the cold war.\n\nAs the Warsaw Pact (dominated by the Soviet Union, USSR) had overwhelming strength in troops, armor and aircraft, a nuclear counter strategy was developed.\n\nThis was dependent on tactical (rather than strategic) nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons that could be fired out of howitzers were developed, the theory being that you could blast the bad guys, and the good guys would win.\n\nSo the use of nuclear weapons to stop an invasion not only has intrinsic logical precedent, any means necessary, as well as the technology to make it less than internally lethal.\n\n-dh\n\nScary thought though...