As debate intensifies over the use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans conflict, a former Pentagon adviser has come out against them. Dr. Doug Rokke, a health physicist who led the cleanup of depleted uranium immediately after the Gulf War, believes Pentagon officials have made “a political decision and are totally unwilling to recognize that there are health consequences,” the use of DU. Dr. Rokke says the force of the impact of a depleted uranium round converts much of it into a spray of burning uranium dust. Anyone who’s inhaled or ingested the dust or who has let it enter a wound requires immediate medical treatment.