Some stuff

[Bob Norton]

I find it interesting, to say the least, that over the last 20 years  
MORE than 300 tons of DU projectiles have been fired into tanks and 
other targets on the side of a mountain just outside of Socorro, NM. 
This is the NMERI site, operated by UNM (where I work). There has 
been no observable degradation of the health of the local residents.

On the other hand, when I was in Nam (67-68), I often saw 
radiation-suited techs with Sandia Labs logos on their backs 
embarking and disembarking from Otter aircraft, carrying 
scintillometers and other radiation detection equipment. The word was 
that they were dusting rice fields with plutonium oxide. You'll find 
that there was almost endemic stomach and intestinal cancer in VN 
shortly after this period. The US forces apparently thought that the 
Viet Cong would be poisoned by the rice but it seems that almost 
all of it was stolen by ARVN forces. (Big surprise.)

Our smallpox blankets have definitely gone high-tech.