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I VISITED Kosovo in June 2000 and was concerned to learn that NATO forces had
begun using depleted uranium weapons in their campaign to drive out Serbian
troops. Since then, NATO veterans have reported unusual levels of illness and 17
have died from leukaemia.

Â鶹´«Ã½ recently quoted Dudley Goodhead, head of the Medical
Research Council’s radiation and genome stability unit at Harwell, Oxfordshire,
as saying that insoluble depleted uranium dust, if inhaled, could be “scavenged”
by white blood cells and transported to local lymph nodes
(13 January, p 5). The
report by a Royal Society committee chaired by…