Several veterans have told BBC Radio 4's environment programme, Costing the Earth, why they are worried. The Ministry of Defence continues to insist that DU poses no particular risk to parents, let alone their children. But the programme hears concerns that there may be a higher rate of birth defects among the children of those who served in the Gulf. One of those interviewed is Kenny Duncan, an Army driver who removed destroyed Iraqi tanks from the battlefield.
Nobody remembers being told about it at all.
It certainly wasn't given in a warning to us. Kenny and his wife Mandy have three children, all born since the 1991 war. All were born with health problems, which have persisted. They've got bowel problems, chronic fatigue, and a persistent cough, and nothing helps with that. She believes her husband is now showing early signs of cancer, with a lump on his knee and a nine-month wait to find out what it is.