What a load of crap.
First: An average coal fired power plant in the US dumps 100 tons of uranium a year into the atmosphere, not depleted uranium, mind you, just raw uranium.
Second: DU is not the environmental horror it is made out to be. The danger actually comes from Uranium Oxide, which is formed in during the projectiles impact. UO is very toxic (not radioactive), but it also bonds into various harmless organic compounds almost instantly. As long as you don't go licking tanks within a day of them being destroyed you should be OK.
Third: Most of those pictures are from the Minamata Mercury poisoning incident.
Fourth: I work with numerous Gulf War I vets, all of them armor types, and not one of them has bitched about GWS (which, incidentally, is thought to be caused by low level exposure to Sarin when we destroyed stockpiles).
This flash is sophistry and fear mongering at it's very worst.
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