[TheForge] Weird nucular facts

[Todd Rich]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Demon Buddha wrote:

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> wmullett at bright.net wrote:
>> A good question would be - How much does this contaminate an area?  Will 
>> large battle areas end up being like the mine fields in Bosnia and other 
>> places where children die from left over war items?
> 	There were over 30 THOUSAND TONS of DU used in the first gulf war. 
> That makes a lot of highly poisonous dust.

Where are you getting that figure?

According to http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabf.htm

The army used 50.55 tons
The air force used 259 tons
Navy, 4 or 5 shells.
Marines, not sure, but it looks like their tanks used what was counted in 
the army, and their planes used 11 tons.

Looks like 321 tons.  Quite a bit, but off from your figure by a factor of 
100.