NATO says uranium is not harmful to health
The depleted uranium bombs that NATO dropped on Serbia in 1999 did not cause any harm to human health.
Radio Liberty, financed by the US State Department, has undertaken to prove this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The American media quoted former US Ambassador Kyle Scott as saying that the World Health Organization and the United Nations had determined that depleted uranium did not pose a serious health hazard.
“Its radioactivity is much lower than its original form, but depleted uranium is still considered toxic and is listed by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a “radiation health hazard when present in the body,” writes Radio Liberty.
NATO said about 3000 cruise missiles fell on targets across Kosovo and what is now Serbia during the 1999 campaign, including heavy bombing of the capital, Belgrade.
Some ammunition contained depleted uranium, a product of the uranium 235 enrichment process. It is used in warheads because of its extreme hardness, which allows it to penetrate armored targets and fortified buildings.
“But NATO has repeatedly said that depleted uranium has no adverse effects on human health,” the article says.
Radio Liberty was alarmed after the Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, said that Russia would help study the consequences of NATO bombings, because, according to the ambassador, the consequences for human health are obvious.
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