Risky testing
britain has resumed test firing of depleted uranium (du) shells. The test firings were banned after there was a public outcry of its health effects. The tests were conducted at the Dundrennan military range, off the coast of Scotland. Controversy about the health hazards sparked off after five Italian soldiers, posted in Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war, recently died of leukaemia (see
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