FWD: DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS

[Judy Panetta]

Hello,

That would be U-235.

There's really no end to the creativity by which we can
incinerate each other.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Wright AIA
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: FWD: DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS
>
>
> Howdy
> A-and do you all know why this stuff is used, and
> has been used for
> many decades, in armor piercing munitions? It
> adds mass to the shell,
> allowing it to blow a hole through the armor
> shell of the tank or
> bunker in question. The kinetic energy of an
> armor-piercing shell is,
> in the instant of impact, converted largely to heat which
> melts/vaporizes a hole through the target, clean
> as a punch. The molten
> steel of the target, along with material from the
> munition, bursts into
> the shell of the tank or bunker and incinerates
> everything inside, and
> secondarily igniting any fuel or explosives that
> may be stored within.
> The depleted uranium is the most massive element
> available and helps
> the armor (or bunker) piercing shell to deliver
> this kinetic energy
> efficiently to a small point.
>
> The "depleted" uranium is radioactive, but the
> fissile isotope (is it
> the U-238 or U-235? I can't remember...) and
> intensely poisonous
> plutonium have been removed.
>
> FWIW,
> Mark
>
> --- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> > DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS
> >
> > America's big dirty secret
> >
> > by ROBERT JAMES PARSONS
> >
> >      The United States loudly and proudly
> boasted this month
> >      of its new bomb currently being used
> against al-Qaida
> >      hold-outs in Afghanistan; it sucks the air from
> >      underground installations, suffocating
> those within. The
> >      US has also admitted that it has used
> depleted uranium
> >      weaponry over the last decade against
> bunkers in Iraq,
> >      Kosovo, and now Afghanistan.
> >
> >                     Translated by the author
> >
> >        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/03uranium>
> >
> > kwp
> >
>
>
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