Did you know John Wayne once played Genghis Khan in a six-million-dollar Hollywood epic? Did you know the movie was filmed downwind from a nuclear testing ground only a year after several major atomic detonations?

More ordnance was rained down on Iraq during the six weeks of the Gulf War than was dropped in the whole of World War Two.

Unknown to the public or the Allied troops at the time, much of it was coated with depleted uranium (DU).

This nuclear waste has replaced titanium as a cheap coating for weapons which can pierce armour.