FWD: DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS

[Dave Monroe]

Well, hopefully ...

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Oh, yr talking about that uranium thing.  Sorry.  But,
speaking of irony, someone really should note just how
much rhetorical, at least (though I've yet to see the
police blotter on this one), violence was engendered
here by "non-violence," how much aggression was
engendered by "pacifism."  So I will ...
> > 
> > > -----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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