Many, including myself, have debunked the left's insistence that Depleted Uranium is inherently dangerous--other than when fired from a weapon. A just-published Pentagon study confirms the position I and many others hold. This article in the New York Times reports on the Pentagon study, but mistakenly states that "Depleted uranium is a byproduct of nuclear weapons production." Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the enrichment of uranium, irrespective of the purpose for the enrichment. See this article from the USGS site.