Unsafe weaponry

The adjective would seem to be unnecessary but it is certain that many types of weapons such as cluster bombs, land mines and white phosphorus have a much greater negative impact on the civilian population in a war zone than others. The United States continues to argue that the use of depleted uranium in shells and bombs poses no threat to either civilians or friendly soldiers but high cancer rates in residents of Colonie NY, the site of a former munitions plant which produced depleted uranium weapons, may tell a different story. A study of the town's residents that was funded by the British government (one wonders why the American government doesn't seem to care about these workers) and due to be published in the forthcoming issue of Science of the Total Environment also reveals that the radioactivity from these weapons lasts for millions of years and is impossible to remove either from the environment or from the human body. It should be noted that the sample size of the study is too small to be considered statistically significant but that, based on the current findings, the researchers are expanding the size of the study to provide such significance.

I can only assume that should the findings hold up and the rest of humanity decides that such weapons should be banned the United States will refuse to agree just as it has with land mines, cluster bombs and white phosphorus.