DU is used specifically for armor piercing shells. They also use it in some large calibre bullets since it has more mass per volume and thereby delivers a bigger punch.

There is more Uranium now in Iraq in the form of DU than 20,000 Hiroshima bombs

There are many web sites that show the deformities of Iraqi children which are too horrific to recount here.

DU is also left behind in the Bosnia war countryside.