近期，参加北约在波黑和科索沃地区维和行动的一些欧洲国家先后报道本国维和士兵因癌症或白血病死亡，或患上所谓“巴尔干综合征”这样一种奇怪病症。与此同时，这些国家的媒体和公众指责这与北约当年在这些地区大量使用贫铀弹造成核辐射有关。一时间，贫铀弹污染和“巴尔干综 Recently, some European countries participating in NATO peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have successively reported that their peacekeepers died of cancer or leukemia or suffered from such a strange condition as the so-called “Balkan syndrome.” At the same time, the media and the public in these countries blamed this on the extensive use of depleted uranium (NAR) shells in those areas by NATO in that year. For a time, depleted uranium bombs and “Balkan integrated.”