Wolfgang - When I was responding to Guest, I was responding to, "If one is a soldier it's going to be mighty hard to convince one not to use the safest armour to protect onself, and the most dangerous missiles to inflict on one's opponent."

The point is that this soldier will be living with the results of that armour being pierced. My guess is that most soldiers aren't even aware of what that armour is made of. If young men and their parents knew that they were going to be exposed to depleted uranium, they might not be so quick to volunteer for service. What kind of government exposes 500,000 of their own troops to depleted uranium?