The NYT goes inside with a pretty important revelation relating to the mushrooming controversy about the health risks to NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans posed by spent U.S. depleted uranium ammunition. After the NATO bombing campaign of 1999, the paper's Marlise Simons reports, the U.S. Joint Chiefs issued a "hazard awareness" document warning soldiers and civilians against touching the ammunition and telling personnel having to handle anti-tank shells or enter wrecked vehicles to wear protective masks and cover exposed skin, and advising those involved in the most hazardous of such tasks to undergo health assessments afterwards. The paper got the document from an unnamed NATO military official.
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