Artillery fire on both sides was constant this. Entire villages were wiped off the map and. Never before had so many soldiers been killed in such a limited area. Or Dead Mans Hill was the scene of particularly bitter fighting. At the end of the Battle One Of The Hills Two summits was ten meters lower than it was before. Served as a laboratory for testing new weapons the german army fired poison gas in shells here for the first time. This allowed for more accurate targeting. The effect on french troops was devastating. The battle lasted from february to december one Nine Hundred Sixteen. A total of about Sixty Million shells were fired. When these missions corrode the casing comes off of it a lot of them youre left with stuff like t. N. T. High explosive which is a percentage of so now you have the constituent weight on the bottom of the ocean which will continually. Put stuff in the environment like that for the next thousand years. These materials accumulate in the ecosystem and pose
what s wrong where we re going to have. to go from a russian general schwarzkopf and. human guy said the clean up to be human as well . the u.s. led forces in iraq enjoyed overwhelming tactical and strategic superiority. their arsenal included armor piercing rounds that contained depleted uranium. most depleted uranium is produced as a byproduct of the enrich uranium used in nuclear reactors. it has a physical half life of four point five billion years. it s also extremely dense which is why do you munitions are so effective. at the point of impact the uranium starts to burn white hot increasing the weapons destructive power. the uranium is vaporized and dispersed into the environment.
what s more military policy can also damage the environment in peacetime. the environmental impacts of war far exceed that during final conflict that s why our conception of warfare a call she begins with war preparations just for preparations alone. consume about fifteen million square kilometers six percent of the raw material used around the world that makes the militaristic use of the earth s resources as a critical critical component to overall human use of nature. the u.s. defense department consumes more petroleum than any other government agency on earth more than one hundred million barrels a year. during the iraq war in two thousand and three the u.s. led coalition consumed about one third more fuel every month than the total amount
the issue increasingly because. nature is more fragile or and warfare is more robust and powerful. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. the use of agent orange was sharply restricted by the united nations but the u.s. military continued to deploy weapons that contain other toxic substances. doug rockey is a retired u.s. army major and former director of the military s depleted uranium project. in one nine hundred ninety one during the first gulf war rocky was assigned to. paratroops on how to respond to biological chemical and nuclear warfare.
what neal it was surprising and it s one of the more visible effects of dioxin poisoning that poor people know. and estimated three million vietnamese came into direct contact with defoliants that contain dioxin. it s not known what long term effects this exposure may have had on their health. this woman was at the battle of hamburger hill she couldn t leave her infant daughter behind because she was still breastfeeding the americans flew over and sprayed agent orange the child was directly exposed to it and has been paralyzed ever since. but it s extremely difficult to prove the presence of dioxin in vietnam there s only one laboratory that has the capacity to do it. the most toxic element in