groupthink asked]
how come the pentagon has never been able to use it before?
DU was fielded in the late 70's as a stopper to the expected Soviet Bloc armored thrust across the North German Plain that was to begin WW-III. Thankfully, the Soviet Union collapsed and Europe and the World...
I see where Group Think claims that Rokke is no "activist" - no, he probably is not, he is a con artist looking for suckers to impress. He has a PhD, but it is in Vocational Education and the exciting thesis was titled "Perceived physics concepts needed to teach secondary technology education...
DU heavy armor is welded between two steel armor plates. Alpha radiation can not penetrate steel (it can not penetrate skin or even a thin sheet of paper). Sitting in a tank for an entire war is not hazardous at all and not the equivalent of getting an x-ray.
DU is not used by artillery...
Your brother is right. Depleted Uranium is Uranium-238; the use of DU in war time has not had any significant effect on either people or the environment. There is a large cottage industry started by Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine in about 1992 that maintains otherwise. I came to this...