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Article: DEPLETED URANIUM EFFECTIVE BUT POLITICALLY INCORRECT.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 28, 2003
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Byline: RICH LOWRYSyndicated columnist
If a special sort of metal were to cause an enemy's shells to bounce harmlessly off your tanks and your shells to blow his to smithereens, it would be hailed as an invaluable, miracle-working substance, right? Not in the United States in the year 2003.
Such a metal exists. It's called depleted uranium. It's used in the armor and the armor-piercing ammunition of the M-1 Abrams tank. In one incident in the first Persian Gulf War, three Iraqi T-72 tanks blasted an American M-1, but their shells got deflected. The M-1, in turn, destroyed each of the T-72s, the last with a shot that penetrated through a sand berm ...