Abstract

The Pentagon's radioactive bullet

The article presents a investigative report on Pentagon's new superbullet, made of radioactive waste. It is about two feet long, cylindrical and far denser than steel. When fired from a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank, it is capable of drilling a hole through the strongest of tank armors. The first time the Army used this "depleted uranium" (D.U.)ammunition on a battlefield was during the Gulf War, in 1991. Yet despite Pentagon assurances that only a small number of U.S. troops were exposed to dangerous levels of D.U., a two-month investigation has discovered that hundreds and perhaps thousands of U.S. veterans were unknowingly exposed to potentially hazardous levels of depleted uranium in the Persian Gulf. Average infantry soldier is still receiving no training on how to protect against exposure to D.U..