"Interpretations Of International Humanitarian Law Change Over Time And This Also Affects The Laws Of War."

For example Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia pointed out in 2001 that although there is no specific treaty ban on the use of depleted uranium projectiles, there is a developing scientific debate and concern expressed regarding the effect of the use of such projectiles and it is possible that, in future, there may be a consensus view in international legal circles that use of such projectiles violate general principles of the law applicable to use of weapons in armed conflict.

This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breaches one or more of the following treaties:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
The Charter of the United Nations;
The Genocide Convention;
The United Nations Convention Against Torture;
The Geneva Conventions including Protocol I;
The Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980;
The Chemical Weapons Convention;
and The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.