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“Most military use of depleted uranium has been as 30 mm ordnance, primarily the 30 mm PGU-14/B armour-piercing incendiary round from the GAU-8 Avenger cannon of the A-10 Thunderbolt II used by the United States Air Force.”
The photograph of the debris below was taken on Vieques island, Puerto Rico — an island that served as a free-for-all live fire range for the US navy from the time of FDR to President Clinton.
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DU is radioactive. So it stands to reason that it could probably wreck the human endocrine system if it were to say… leach into the soil. Cancer rates on Vieques are 27% higher than elsewhere on the island of Puerto Rico.
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