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Ana-Liofa On Land Mines Being A Worse Danger Than Depleted UraniumAna-Liofa On Land Mines Being A Worse Danger Than Depleted Uranium
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Fortunately, as I said earlier, heavy metal oxides do not stay airborne very long, but end up in the soil. Unless you are within a really limited range of a tank, you are not going to be breathing Uranium Oxide, nor are you likely to breathe lead oxide if you are out of immediate range of the muzzle of a rifle. Unless you sit in one spot firing your tank for a looong time, it is chiefly a problem of the tank crews, not of your pregnant wife (unless she is also a tanker).
Quite true, though, that battlefields are far dirtier places than the forest primeval. For my money, Land Mines are the most toxic substance left on a typical battlefield, and do incalculable harm to innocent children all over the world. Use of land mines should be banned in any civilized nation.
Other toxic substances are left behind as well, along with unexploded ordinance of all kinds, asbestos, and so on.
I guess the point here - and I don't think I am disagreeing with you on this - is that it would be nice if we no longer had battlefields. Or "not-so-smart" bombs, the suicide martyrs.... or planes falling on our buildings... None of these are exactly Green, which is where we need to be if our grandchildren expect to be able to take a deep breath when they are 35.
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