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Recently, many scientists, health professionals and environmental activists are demanding to know whether NATO is using weapons that contain depleted uranium, a radioactive metal that is used to tip bullets that pierce armored tanks. Depleted uranium was extensively used in Iraq during the Gulf War, and studies have shown that it has caused birth defects, stillbirths, high rates of cancer and other symptoms associated with Gulf War Syndrome.
Those affected by these ailments include Iraqis, Gulf War veterans and residents of Socorro, a small New Mexico town located just a few miles from where the military conducts tests on depleted uranium. So far, both NATO and the Pentagon have refused to say whether they are using bullets tipped with depleted uranium against the Serb army. But many say that depleted uranium is being dropped on Yugoslavia because it is used in Tomahawk and Cruise missiles as a balancing mechanism.
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