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It was Professor Siegwart-Horst Günther, German doctor for tropical diseases and epidemiology, who was the first to point out the dangerous late effects of so-called uranium-mantled projectiles. During the Gulf War tons of this ammunition were shelled out by the US army. The film accompanies Günther and his American colleagues during their investigations in Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq. In all these places American troops used this dangerous uranium ammunition. The film shows the long-term effects, about which little was known until now and which have affected, above all, the children in the war areas. After the end of the latest Iraq war the experts discovered in the surroundings of Basra contaminated theatres of war, where the radio-active contamination was 20,000 times that of the earth's natural radiation. As early as 1991, after the Gulf War, Professor Günther had noticed people in the University Clinic of Baghdad with symptoms which he had never seen before in the 40 years of his work in this country. He also examined many deformed babies and children, most of whom did not live long, and documented the cases. He diagnosed serious disorders in the functioning of the kidneys and the liver, cancer and genetic defects. When similar symptoms then appeared in the cases of American and British Gulf War veterans and their children, the connection was clear to Günther and many other scientists. They are now demanding a complete ban of this ammunition, which is part of the US army's standard equipment.