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DU HAS NO ARMS TREATY. "But since weapons containing DU are relatively new weapons no treaty exists yet to regulate, limit or prohibit its use. Some states and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, a coalition of more than 155 non-governmental organizations, have asked for a ban." http://lnkd.in/dyTaBUC View in LinkedIn

DU MUNITIONS WIDESPREAD: "between 17 and 20 countries have weapons incorporating depleted uranium in their arsenals ... DU ammunition is manufactured in 18 countries. Only the US and the UK have acknowledged using DU weapons." http://lnkd.in/dyTaBUC View in LinkedIn

DU HAS IMMENSE HALF-LIFE. "Most depleted uranium arises as a byproduct of the production of enriched uranium for use in nuclear reactors and in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. It is only weakly radioactive ... long radioactive half-life (4.468 billion years for uranium-238, 700 million years for uranium-235)." http://lnkd.in/dyTaBUC View in LinkedIn

DU DUST. "The aerosol or spallation frangible powder produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites, leading to possible inhalation by human beings." http://lnkd.in/dyTaBUC View in LinkedIn

DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) BOMBS. "The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003... with thousands of tons of munitions made from depleted uranium ... more than half of babies born in Fallujah ... were born with birth defects...the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied." http://lnkd.in/dKZdVjF View in LinkedIn

DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS. The next string is a peek at the remarkable practices of the military relating to using depleted uranium in munitions, a toxic radioactive nuclear waste byproduct, used because of its high density and armor piercing qualities; it is a toxic chemical, and whose legacy will remain in the dust for very long periods. View in LinkedIn

CYBER BIOLOGY. "Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells." http://lnkd.in/dTQVWrg View in LinkedIn

PROTECTING LIFE'S OS. "Before we enter the age of programmable biology, we must contemplate what we might do differently to avoid the mistakes we made in our development of silicon-based computing ... seriously considering how we will protect the world's original operating system." http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

CYBER SECURITY LESSONS. "If our experience with cyberspace is any indication, these developments will unfold unpredictably, yet there are important lessons to be learned. The internet was built for redundancy, not security. As a result, we have the omnipresent spectre of cybercrime looming over us." http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

EASE OF 'BIOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT' through advances in synbiology, the decrease in the costs of key scientific work, and the democratization of science have definitely colluded to make the work a less secure place today. Whether it be crooks and scammers trying to steal using these techniques, or whether it be the crazy loner, or organized extremists, there is no way to unknown what we know today. View in LinkedIn