La Guerre radioactive secrète

Did America bomb Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo with radioactive waste ? In these conflicts, the American army's use of depleted uranium weapons effected the mass destruction of enemy tanks and armor, while minimising casualties among its own troops. This metal-free, plentiful, and among the densest on earth-was used as a super-penetrating shell casing, able to cut through the thickest armor. And yet before the Gulf War, US military analysts had repeatedly expressed the gravest reservation about its deployment, citing health risks to both military and civilian populations. With a radioactive half-life of four and a half billion years, the stakes involved in the proliferation of this new weapon are enormous, for the public, and for the earth itself. Testimony from doctors and veterans is contrasted with spokesmen from European and American military establishments, and we hear the scientific arguments on both sides of this question. This documentary, which takes us from the halls of the Pentagon to the testing-grounds of the Sonoran desert, from New York medical labs to the homes of veterans across America, from UN and Nato to the battlefields of central Europe and the Middle East, details the growing debate over this controversial weapon