The Nuremberg Principles specify that all individuals involved in the commission of a crime against humanity, including its planning, will be held responsible. Charter of the International Tribunal, August 8, 1945.

The U.S., and also NATO, define a chemical agent as “a chemical substance, which, because of its physiological, or pharmacological effects, is intended for use in military operations to kill, seriously injure, or incapacitate humans (or animals) through its toxicological effects. (...) Chemical agents may be nerve agents, incapacitating agents, blister agents (vesicants), lung-damaging agents, blood agents, and vomiting agents.” Headquarters, Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, Treatment of Chemical Agent Casualties and Conventional Military Chemical Injuries, FM 8-285, NAVMED P-5041, AFM
160-11 (Washington, DC: February 1990), p. 3-2.

The international community has the responsibility and capability to investigate allegations of depleted uranium weapons production and use. The U.N. secretary-general is charged by the U.N. General Assembly “to carry out investigations in response to reports that may be brought to his attention by any Member State concerning the possible use of chemical and bacteriological (biological) or toxin weapons...and to report promptly the result of any such investigation to all Member States.” (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 42/37 C, November 30, 1987.) Procedures for investigating such allegations were established in a report of the secretary-general in 1989. (United Nations General Assembly, “Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons: Report of the Secretary General,” A/44/561 - New York: United Nations, 1989).

Early information suggests that troops deployed in Bosnia with DU-armored tanks and personnel carriers and DU rounds are also unaware they are at risk from DU exposure, and the Bosnian government has not been advised of the risk. (144th Army National Guard: see also General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, Jan. 1993, pp. 3-5. General Calvin Waller on NBC's `Dateline,' aired on Feb. 22, 1994.)

DU munitions and armored vehicles have been deployed in Bosnia, in what could become yet another international human health and environmental catastrophe, and DU ammunition has already been used in that conflict. The recent Army report on DU sanctions both its use and its proliferation, despite the consequences. (DU in Bosnia: The 160 M1- A1 tanks sent to Bosnia use DU ammunition. Their presence is confirmed in the December 25, 1995, edition of Army Times. DU has already been used in that conflict: See Associated Press report by David Crary published in the Planesburgh, NY, Press Republican of August 6, 1994: `Two U.S. A-10s destroyed the [Bosnian Serb] M-78 mobile `tank buster'...' DU can also be considered in the context of the history of the U.S. military's use of its own troops to test such things as chemical weapons (mustard gas, for example) and psychotropic drugs.)