The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.
The problem with depleted uranium isn’t that it is poison to touch, but that it dissolves into the dirt and dust and poisons everything because people will, in fact, be breathing it in as an aerosol and drinking what gets in the water supply.
Sounds plausible, but wouldn’t it cause the same types of effects in Bosnia if that were the case?
Yes
https://press.un.org/en/2002/unep124.doc.htm
In the follow follow up report they said that the risks of the DU dust causing any harm are minimal.