FWD: DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS

[Mark Wright AIA]

No end at all... None at all.

--- Judy Panetta <judy at firemist.com> wrote:
> 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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