A child can unknowingly absorb depleted-uranium particles through routine play

Evidence

Did Ahmed cut himself on the tank’s jagged metal? Did he lick a finger, wipe or pick his nose, or breathe in DU particles? If so, he may have unwittingly enlisted as a child soldier to fight in a real biological war, waged slowly, silently against his kidneys, his lungs, his lymph glands, or his thyroid—his blood, bones, chromosomes all under fire. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 659

Categorization

• XREF: Ahmed the child soldier of slow violence directly embodies the enduring-war-in-bodies claim (ch42, 43). — connects to: Depleted uranium combusts into odorless radioactive glass particles that are inhaled unknowingly — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 634; Depleted uranium’s harm concentrates in children and accumulates through breast milk — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 660; The euphemism ‘depleted’ masks uranium’s radioactive and chemical threat in munitions — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 603

Broader Connections

• The euphemism ‘depleted’ masks uranium’s radioactive and chemical threat in munitions #expands (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 603