Maybe you folks forgot that we are at war. Perhaps waking one morning to find Manhattan just a smoking hole where 5,000,000 Americans once lived would focus the issues a bit.

Depleted uranium rounds are used in a last-chance defensive system employed by our aircraft carriers and other capital ships. Without these defenses our sons and daughters are sitting ducks for many third-world weapons. Testing is critical, despite very, very slight risks, so slight in fact that nobody can clearly identify them.